divergently

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

For two players raised and taught by the same tennis-instructor parents, the brothers Zverev play tennis about as divergently as you could imagine.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

The existing groups, according to this hypothesis, have developed in different areas independently and divergently by continuous adaptation to their several environments.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

The intervening space, at an inclination of thirty odd degrees, was a field of seats, cut into three equal parts by two aisles that ran from the entrance, divergently upward.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

Capsule obcordately 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves divergently 2-lobed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

I dive and make a great fuss of attacking, then I steer divergently.

From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir