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How to use the word deflected in a Sentence?

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He started hurting my mom by physically choking her and strangling her, he was about to hit her but thankfully my mom deflected the hit, but it hit her chest instead of her face.

Patricia Roque

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Charlotte and Tim are on a search for the truth, and will not be deflected from that, the U.S. government will continue to do everything within their power to stop them.

Radd Seiger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you throw five interceptions and throw the ball 526 times, that’s amazing, you’re going to get the ball tipped, deflected. Balls are going to go through the hands of a receiver. Something bad going's to happen. Yet he’s thrown five picks. I think in the last three years, he’s thrown 11 picks. Think about that. You throw 38 touchdown passes and 11 picks in a season, you ’d think that’s pretty good. 11 picks in three years.

Rich Gannon

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This other meeting... I was actually, to be honest, angry with him, i hate to say it, but often when women show anger, it's not fully appreciated. It's often, you know, pushed onto emotional issues perhaps, or deflected onto other people. And what I was angry about was that he wasn't coordinating with us.

Fiona Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We must maintain our twin requirements of holding those responsible for the murder to account, while recognizing the reality of Saudi Arabia as a necessary strategic partner. We can not be deflected from using all our influence to end this war for the good of innocent people in trouble, and ultimately the safety of our own people, and this includes our military engagement.

Jamal Khashoggi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Joe Biden trotted onto the stage and along the parade route, but deflected questions about whether Joe Biden will challenge Clinton and surging Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. I am definitely going to run part of this parade.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The assault was described even by the photographer as a couple of slaps, certainly three at the most, that he deflected with his shoulder.

Brian Greenspan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Interplanetary shocks, traveling toward Earth from the Sun, have been observed and studied before, what is of major interest in the event reported are the direct observations of the effects of the shock on Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts with sufficient detail to reveal the processes taking place. Although the main strength of the solar shock is deflected by the magnetic shield that surrounds our planet, a brief pulse of energy penetrates closer to Earth where it accelerates radiation belt electrons to ultra-relativistic energies in less than a minute.

John Foster

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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