Diverged
[dɪ'vɜ:dʒd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Diverge
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We were taking the course I had begun with, and from which I had diverged in the mist. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Presently I came to a place where five corridors diverged from a common point. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The branches ought to have diverged in all directions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It occurred to her that he might be resting in the summer-house, towards which the path diverged a little. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Their conditions diverged from the first. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But from this point the two worlds diverged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rays of light are diverged and do not come to any real focus. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checker: Muriel