Diversions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIVERSIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DIVERSION, the act of diverting or turning aside
• the action of turning something aside from its course
• the action of reallocating something
• an alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed
• an activity that diverts the mind from tedious or serious concerns; a recreation or pastime
• something intended to distract attention from something more important
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or an instance of diverting from a course, activity, or us; deviation

Words related to DIVERSIONS

diversion13

How to use DIVERSIONS in a sentence

• Thus with various diversions and occupations his school days passed until he was about sixteen years old, when he was suddenly called away from his academic studies.
• He was fain to look like one accustomed to social diversions, a man hurried from hall to hall of pleasure, without time between to change collar or polish boot.
• He joined them in their sports and diversions on the deck, surpassing them in their feats, and taking the direction of every thing as if he were their acknowledged leader.
• My heart begins to ache for loneliness, and I long for the gaiety of the town and its diversions.
• Petersburgh, the birth day of any of the royal family is observed as a time of great festivity, by all kinds of diversions.
• These meetings were the substitutes for all other social diversions or emotions.
• He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the Constitution or in stating the law, whether in details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship.
• Having fires seems to have been one of the chief diversions in old James Towne, and we had no sooner got to the island than we fell in with the custom.
• If his duty as he saw it was sometimes grim, and his disappointments keen, hearty diversions were at hand to restore his equanimity.
• Now I lived three years in a constant round of diversions, and was made the perfect idol of all the men that came to court of all ages and all characters.
• Since his nominal release, Edward had been allowed the diversions of riding and hunting, and on May 28 he was suffered to go out for a ride under negligent or corrupt guard.
• Several other similar duties afforded diversions from the usual training programme.
• The horse shows which were held from time to time as occasion permitted provided diversions and did much to maintain a high standard of efficiency in the first line transport.
• A river bank may be beautiful and teeming with diversions, but if the river is used as a source of drinking water, the results will almost always be fatal to some.
• The social diversions brought out some splendid talent.
• Among these Roman diversions certain comic characters have been transmitted to us, along with some of their characteristics, and their dresses.
• They could take sleigh-rides and see in the distance the whales enjoying their diversions.
• These diversions all came to an end on August 26th, 1807, when Tom turned his back on Gibraltar for good.
• The diversions of the natives at Wateeo, the Friendly, and the Society Islands, have been copiously described by Captain Cook.
• And one of the weekly diversions in Homeburg is watching this race.
• Ludlow had regularly drawn a salary, which his subordinates earned, and divided his abundant leisure between the diversions peculiar to Mrs.
• If she is forbidden some harmless amusements she very frequently learns these diversions at the homes of her friends.
• These innocent diversions give the doctors their support.
• I am heartily weary both of diversions and politics, and am more than half inclined to retire to Strawberry.
• The sumptuous pleasures of our ancestors weary us, as well as their simple, childish diversions.
• But such diversions she was obliged to deny herself.
• If they are peaceable and inoffensive, the drawings usually consist of local scenery and their favorite diversions.
• The three diversions given above had filled his spare hours, and woman was to him a sealed book.
• Other troubles he had that may have been diversions from those.
• Once or twice he looked about to see if we were observing, but we were in appearance blankly oblivious to all but one another and our several diversions.
• They relinquished all the diversions of the times, in which they saw any tendency to evil.
• He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the Constitution, or in stating the law, whether in the details of statistics or the diversions of scholarship.

Similar words containing DIVERSION without suffix s

diversion13 diversional15 diversionary19 diversionist16 diversionists17

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