DEVIATE in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for DEVIATE, such as:
1. The plane deviated from its usual route.
2. The plane deviated from its normal flight path.
3. It is a law of nations from which they never deviate.
4. There must be no deviation from the normal procedure.
5. Her speech deviated little from the official party line.
2. The plane deviated from its normal flight path.
3. It is a law of nations from which they never deviate.
4. There must be no deviation from the normal procedure.
5. Her speech deviated little from the official party line.
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Meanings and Examples of DEVIATE
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deviate
v. turn away from a principle, norm; depart; diverge
Classic Sentence:
1 Beauchamp wished to go in alone, but Albert observed that as this was an unusual circumstance he might be allowed to deviate from the usual etiquette in affairs of honor.
2 I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
3 It will be a pleasure if we can so far deviate from our rules as to give the required information to his lordship.
4 At this point I must reluctantly deviate to say that men of weight and high office are always a trifle ponderous when conversing with ladies.
5 It is a law of nations from which they never deviate.
6 Nature, according to her way, had made no deviation in the path he had marked out for himself.
7 Do not blame him, however, for departing from his character, where the deviation is necessary.
8 I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
9 Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.
10 He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles.
11 He was even pleased by failures, for failures resulting from deviations in practice from the theory only proved to him the accuracy of his theory.
Example Sentence:
1 Richard did not deviate from his daily routine: every day he set off for work at eight o'clock, had his sack lunch at 12:15, and headed home at the stroke of five.
2 He predicted that gravitational interaction caused light from stars beyond the sun to deviate or swerve from a straight path as it passed the sun.
3 Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
4 The variance and the closely-related standard deviation are measures of how spread out a distribution is; in other words, they are measures of variability.
5 There must be no deviation from the normal procedure.
6 The plane deviated from its normal flight path.
7 Her speech deviated little from the official party line.
8 The plane deviated from its usual route.