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How to use deviate in a sentence

27 example sentences · verb, noun, adjective

Deviate means to go off course from; to change course; to change plans. Example: “His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.”

Examples of deviate by meaning

verbTo go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

  • Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

verbTo fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

  • His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.

nounA value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

  • This difference is called a deviate.2001, Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics
  • This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt.2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R

adjectiveDeviant.

  • It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.1987 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting John Gillespie, “Rawhide Boys”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 2

More sentences with deviate

  • Although they deviate from what is commonly understood as "religion", they share an interest in the superempirical.From the entry superempirical
  • The party conference was very stage-managed, and no one deviated an inch from the official party line.From the entry stage-managed
  • Politicians who appeared to deviate from the new ‘mediamacro consensus’ of deficit fetishism suffered as a consequence.2014 November 24, Simon Wren-Lewis, “Why We Need Our Fiscal Policy Instrument Back”, in Social Europe. From the entry mediamacro
  • Only the movie Sky High deviated from this range, coming in at a SpinalTapian 11.2007 Oct. 2, ogblay, "I Am Prepared to Give Up at Any Time," blogspot.ca (retrieved 27 Oct 2015). From the entry Spinal Tap-ian
  • As soon as your point person begins to deviate, instruct him to correct his direction.2007, Martin Volken, Scott Schell, Margaret Wheeler, Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering, →ISBN. From the entry point person
  • Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.1997, Jean Soler, “5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible”, in Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik, editors, Food and Culture: A Reader…. From the entry blemish
  • Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course.1955 February, M. F. Barbey, “From Carlisle to Silloth”, in Railway Magazine, page 95. From the entry hereabouts
  • The documentarian talks to THR about how he deviated from the typical biodoc playbook and casting Michael J.2023 August 17, Mia Galuppo, “‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’ Director Talks His Approach to the Celebrity Biodoc: “I’m Always Looking for…. From the entry biodoc
  • Never deviate from the path of dogship.”2019, Aziz Nesin, Laugh or Lament, page 123. From the entry dogship
  • Notice that here we slightly deviate from traditional VMD-2 because we include a direct coupling between the pions and the proto-photon.2007, Acta Physica Polonica - Volume 38, Issues 5-6, page 2080. From the entry proto-photon
  • Deviated septum, a shift from the midline that commonly occurs in normal growth, is present in most adults.2002, Springhouse, Illustrated Manual of Nursing Practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 1158. From the entry septum
  • I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.1964, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, directed by Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and…. From the entry prevert
  • The modern arts deviate from the standards set forth by the divine—art should be used to purify one’s heart and improve one’s morality.2020 May 4, “Young Practitioners Should Carefully Read “How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World””, in Minghui. From the entry purify
  • For hyperhaploids the relative frequencies of involvement of single autosomes did not deviate significantly from expectations, assuming the same probability of nondisjunction for all autosomes.2010, Michael R. Speicher, “The human genome: chromosomes”, in Michael R. Speicher, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Arno G. Matulsky, editors…. From the entry hyperhaploid
  • For Tories like Cartland, deviating from the Chamberlain line was seen as betrayal, not disagreement, and the deviators were subjected to raw schoolboy pressure.2007 April 29, Jon Meacham, “Friends of Winston”, in New York Times. From the entry deviator
  • From a policy perspective, market failure should be a matter of concern when market performance significantly deviates from the appropriate efficiency benchmark.2007, Clifford Winston, Government Failure versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance, Brookings…. From the entry market failure
  • In a nonawake person with an intact reflex arc (vestibular-brainstem-eye muscles) passive head-turning causes the eyes to deviate conjugately in the opposite direction.2006, John C M Brust, Current diagnosis and treatment in neurology. From the entry nonawake
  • Still, my favorite moments are the quiet ones, like when Henry, the tell-me-about-the-rabbits-George deviate, croons his balladic confession, "I did a thing."1989 July 21, Anthony Adler, “Game of Love”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry balladic
  • The control is sought in the class of searchless self-adjustable systems that provide the linearity of the basic adjusting contour if the object state deviates from the unperturbed movement.2012, V.Y. Tertychny-Dauri, Adaptive Mechanics, page 40. From the entry searchless
  • It is necessary to correct a wrong opinion, which is, that Lutheran ministers are at liberty to deviate from the Augustan Confession whereinsoever they conceive it as erroneous.1919, Friedrich Bente, American Lutheranism. From the entry whereinsoever
  • Or in other words, do we not have to presuppose that there are conformable and normal events on the one hand, and deviating and anomalous events on the other hand?2007, Bernhard Waldenfels, “Lecture III: The Power of Events”, in The Question of the Other: The Tang Chun-I Lecture for 2004, Hong Kong…. From the entry intraordinary
  • Al-Watan editor-in-chief Jamal Khashuqji has said that Al-Watan aimed to be number one newspaper for every citizen, which is an objective it does not plan to abandon or deviate from.2007 October 6, “Saudi editor says virtue commission criticism leads to improvements”, in Arab Media & Society, archived from the original…. From the entry Khashuqji

Meaning of deviate

  1. verb To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
  2. verb To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
  3. verb To cause to diverge.

Full definition of deviate

Questions about deviate in a sentence

How do you use deviate in a sentence?
Deviate is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.”
What is a short sentence with deviate?
“This difference is called a deviate.”
What does deviate mean?
Deviate means to go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

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