distract

How To Use distract In A Sentence

• The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
• It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
• I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions.
• I was standing in some kind of wooded area and looking around Probably trying to find any distraction to keep me from going for my lecture and I did eventually find that tap-dancing squirrel but that's a story for another post and then somehow bits and pieces began to hit me. Archive 2005-02-01
• Cunnah is unlikely to let something like a labour dispute distract him from the job in hand.
• Only some people believe that a guy who called criticism "distraction" is a good guy. Clinton has big lead in Kentucky, Obama on top in Oregon
• A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road, with fatal consequences.
• It was an opportunity for a politician to grab some cheap brownie points without risk, because it would involve apologising for something he had no responsibility for --- a great distractor. Making Tea For Alan Turing
• Frenetic attempts to distract and comfort him may actually overstimulate him and increase his levels of arousal. Times, Sunday Times
• Katie and Matt were boring me this morning, so I popped in a DVD for distraction and watched him get plowed while lying in a sink.