Sentences with deviate
de·vi·ate
D d - They stopped you as soon as you deviated from the script. [VERB + from]
- He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
- I shall not deviate a line from the policy that I have traced out for myself.
- Executive said the written statements had been prepared in conjunction with police and it would not be proper to deviate from them.
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms.
- And that he would rather die than deviate from received wisdom.
- Deviate suggests a turning aside, often to only a slight degree, from the correct or prescribed course, standard, doctrine, etc. [to deviate from the truth]; swerve implies a sudden or sharp turning from a path, course, etc. [the car swerved to avoid hitting us]; veer1, originally used of ships and wind, suggests a turning or series of turnings so as to change direction; , diverge suggests the branching off of a single path or course into two courses constantly leading away from each other [the sides of an angle diverge from a single point]; digress suggests a wandering, often deliberate and temporary, from the main topic in speaking or writing