divert
In this diverting documentary, we find out what happened to the child actors when they grew up.
The competition was exciting and endlessly diverting.
There are a couple of diverting museums in this part of town.
The entertainment in the hotel was diverting enough to keep the children amused.
The reality show was diverting enough for one series, but not two.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing pleasure
agreeable
agreeableness
agreeably
all things to all peopleidiom
attractive
delightfully
distraction
divertingly
do someone the world of goodidiom
do someone's heart goodidiom
indulgent
indulgently
jovial
jovially
keep on the right side of someoneidiom
sensuously
serendipitous
sweeten
swooning
swooningly

Examples of diverting

diverting
Most academic studies concerned with regional arrangements focus on the relative strengths of diverting and\\or creating trade.
It is clear that the public sector is diverting funds into more urgent priorities.
In many cases, this involves diverting ephemeral streams from hillsides and road culverts onto agricultural land.
The potential effect of the change in diverting admissions from care homes was seen to be hampered by organisational influences which vary between authorities.
Deforestation alters regional drainage patterns and riverbeds, diverting streams from existing river-intakes, and demanding new and costly infrastructure.
All other operations were aimed at harassing or diverting government forces to prevent the authorities from concentrating all their forces.
Concerns about patients misusing medication, experiencing impaired thinking ability, or diverting opioids for non-clinical use by others, were reported by 44.1%, 35.8% and 23.8%, respectively.
Certainly since the 1960s these time costs have expanded substantially, diverting more of household members' energies into these activities.
The plant uses a three-stage heat exchanger (recycle - heating - cooling) and a diverting valve to reject the improperly treated product.
This is analogous to having 100 fields of the same size and diverting harvested water to different numbers of them.
It might also serve to diminish the pain sensation by diverting attention or by suppressing the pain sensations.
The new canal follows the same path, diverting runoff around the museum, thereby protecting it and the archaeological zone.
Almost anyone, student or otherwise, would find it easy to use, attractively printed, and pleasantly diverting.
The discount factor accounts for the opportunity cost of diverting economic resources from other activities.
But as one reason for diverting state aid into the region disappeared, so another arose.
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