How To Use Distracted In A Sentence

Mumbling distractedly, she conducts me through the hundreds of exhibits.
Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate (set up by the notorious Sarkozy seeming to also look on lecherously). Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Reuters Obama Booty Call
Some students will perform the exercise best if naked and undistracted by clothing touching them. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
It is better to focus our attention on that now than to be distracted by anything else.
When the tournament is held before the season, not in the middle of it, players aren't tired, nursing injuries or distracted by their seasons.

Seated in the theatre's lower gallery, I found myself distracted, not for the first time, by the endless gropings of the groundlings.
From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There's almost no national ailment that he feels can't be solved, or at least distracted from, by taking off his suit jacket, loosening his tie and suggesting a good old-fashioned knees-up. You're the prime minister, Cameron. Please stop behaving like the David Brent of British politics | Sam Delaney
Scooping his own jacket up, Shanza gave it a distracted shake and tossed it over his shoulders in a dazed stupor.
The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.
Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted.
Then it really is better to send people home, and let the swat teams and burn squads ship the thing undistracted.
She nods frantically, distractedly, ponytail slicing a semi-circle through the air as she about-faces for a new strip of floor to stomp across.
In the midst of crowded environment, his mind is collected and undistracted.
When you are having a telephone conversation you are more likely to be distracted and let your attention wander.
It's all a bundle of contradictions: The shows are showier, but we're more distracted, yet also encouraged to engage more. Eats and Tweets in the Seats
I must have watched the thirteen or so hour-long episodes right through five or six times, with an undiminished pleasure, and undistracted by any sense of discontinuity with the book.
Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
A properly trimmed airplane will do its best to maintain a constant speed should the pilot become momentarily distracted.
Recognising the tenderness inherent in the small caresses, Luke looked momentarily distracted.
It's easy to get distracted when you're studying.
He was so distracted he almost missed the announcement on the Tannoy. YELLOW BIRD
It's easy to be distracted and let your attention wander.
Too often we are so distracted by the myriad restaurants and products available to us - and the gustatory experience they promise - that we don't notice the real Chef behind the banquet.
Eventually they will become so distracted, and their relationships will be so corroded by duplicity and miscommunication, that they will simply give up and die out.
Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning.
Don't referees constantly do spots where they're distracted by a tag wrestler trying to enter illegally? PWTorch.com
The driver is so distracted by a milkshake that he almost plows right into the back of another car!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Roger, we got distracted and we have overflown Minneapolis. CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009
It disturbed the agenda, and patients seemed to be distracted from the subject that made them seek health care in the first place.
I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor.
Kirk house-sits for them but is distracted by his pretty new girlfriend.
I was momentarily distracted by the latest item of spam in my inbox.
But his assiduousness is strange, as if distracted from itself. Happy Easter.
Attention is impaired, and a delirious person is difficult to engage in conversation and easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli.
It's not a coincidence," Gallagher points out, "that the term distracted once referred not just to a loss or dilution of attention but also to confusion, mental imbalance, and even madness. Ward Sutton: Paying Attention in the Information-Overload Age
Grace was too distracted by the thought of getting dirt in her brand-new white shoes.
People usually think that trying to remain undistracted is some kind of deliberate act.
Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
We have basic good form, but we are easily distracted by birds or small children or other exercisers who look and perform better than we do.
I almost started to question his shoe color preference when I realized his eyes were glassy, his face was flushed, and he seemed distracted.
None of us could have known what it would be like (yes, Bub, unknowable is exactly the right word) – distracted by shiny things or not – and most of us understood that from the beginning. Mothers Are The New Sheep | Her Bad Mother
Labour's Ovine & Bovine really should pay attentionto this in The Times - though I daresay they are somewhat distracted by the pungent whiff of the abattoir which must be assailing their collective nostrilsat the moment. A Painful Lesson From A Brussels Vet
Many airlines of course have reciprocal agreements with others, broadening the chances of a comfortable sit-down or some undistracted work.
Men posing as water supply checkers called to a number of homes in the Tramore area and in one instance they managed to make their way into the home of one resident and while one distracted her the other stole the cash.
Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
A large rumbling noise distracted their attention for a moment.
She was trying to pay attention to what her host was saying, but she was being distracted by the fairies busily unknotting her tangled hair.
Eventually, the tone stabilizes, and, by the second half, the power of the story will envelop all but the most distracted viewers.
Suddenly his eyes averted over my head and he seemed distracted for a moment.
Don't talk to her-she's very easily distracted.
This again is so discourteous to your fellow patrons, and the performers, who are all quite distracted by your shuffling and stumbling in the dark.
Children are left uninterrupted, undistracted, unbothered; their distinctness and separateness are respected.
And then his great vision, but his great failure, was in introducing what he called a quad plan, which was breaking up this somewhat amorphous college where the students didn't know each other so well anymore and where they were distracted by extracurricular affairs and living off the campus and so on, by organizing separate colleges which later Harvard took up in the house plan in the college plan house plan, and Yale took up in the college plan. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
She distracted Annie from more questions by ordering around round of drinks for everyone.
If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In fact, if you have called me on the phone recently and noticed that I seemed distracted, take no offense.
Baker would simply smile that silly smile and refuse to be distracted from whomever he was stalking. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
They would probably be distracted at his nonarrival, but -- this was business, too. Flowing Gold
They found pupils felt more confident in lessons, they were less distracted and did not feel the need to show off.
Despite being a lactivist and breastfeeding in public, I had decided that this meeting was too important for me to be distracted by a squirmy newborn. Archive 2009-05-01
I rubbed my forehead and tried to concentrate, but I was distracted again by a passerby consuming a large, warm cinnamon roll.
She seemed slightly distracted, as if something was worrying her.
I was distracted from my thoughts by the clumping of male feet on the stairs, accompanied by snorts and that peculiarly Scottish sort of giggling usually depicted in print-but by no means adequately-as "Heuch, heuch, heuch! A Breath of Snow and Ashes
I remained distracted until we had demolished our desserts and had only our glasses of wine remaining before us on the table.
The trick is not be distracted by the stupid claims and just to focus on what's important here; everything else is just flimflammery.
Yet tonight he could not relax; he was too distracted, ill-at-ease with the atmosphere in his own household.
And because it was taking longer to go back and fix typos, or edit sentences, I found myself losing track of thoughts, and getting distracted.
When a comely woman flirts with him at a bar, he acts distracted and disinterested.
Distractedly, I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up on legs that felt strange.
She nods frantically, distractedly, ponytail slicing a semi-circle through the air as she about-faces for a new strip of floor to stomp across.
By Thursday, the bump is the size of a golf ball and Laurel is horribly distracted, worrying that it could be a tumor. WINGS YA BOOK CLUB : CHAPTERS 4-6 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
Who wouldn't be distracted by back-stabbing teammates?
She was distracted by the sight of her brother, Hugh, waiting at the barrier. DOUBLE DECEIT
The soft fur solaced me little, and I distractedly wished the bear could soothe the aching sensation in my heart.
The distracted cyclist flew over the handlebars and landed on the pavement.
A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them. Debts of Honor
I felt marginally happier and less distracted by events beyond my control.
And if counting the spondees in the dactyls might have distracted me from what the words were saying (it didn't), wondering about the parenthetical insertions pulled me back in.
On the medicine, he says he was able to fully shift his attention from one situation to the next rather than perseverate on a previous conversation, and could plan what he was going to do next rather than get distracted by a phone call and forget what he was doing. Psychiatric Drug Use Spreads
Sometimes the decoration was misaligned, possibly because the decorator was overworked or distracted.
He's looking a little distracted, as he's trying to earwig on the Edge's conversation.
Women have reason to be relieved that Parliament's attention was distracted.
Doubting she would be distracted enough by that to forget it, Adam quickly tried to think of something else to say.
They were distracted by a dull thumping sound from the other side of the room.
It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved.
Don't talk to her-she's very easily distracted.
For most of us, the development of concentration, of an undistracted quality of mind, takes time.
That was the plan, and it relied on the enemy being distracted by their decoys.
Many also fall behind at school because they are too tired or too distracted to complete homework properly.
The rage and fury over China’s deficits has distracted American political parties from examining the dangerous relationship of the Japanese ruling corporate/right wing and the corruption and malefeasance and irresponsibilities of the American/corporate/right wing. Beware of the basklisk eye » Japundit Blog
I looked straight at my screen all day, but was distracted by a faint sniff sniff sniff coming from a nearby desk.
I saw soldiers' heads turn and nostrils twitch distractedly.
Hands-free devices are not considered to be safer as the driver is still distracted.
Don't be distracted by the tired old vaudeville routine in Europe.
Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father. Murder by the Numbers
It was impossible to count the tricks that Diva made, for she had a habit of putting her elbow on them after she had raked them in, as if in fear that her adversaries would filch them when she was not looking, and Miss Mapp, distracted with other interests, forgot that no-trumps had been declared and thought it was hearts, of which Diva played several after their adversaries 'hands were quite denuded of them. Miss Mapp
Too many more of these so-so auditions, and viewers could get easily distracted.
My father was perhaps irritated by the slightly patronizing tone which Turgénieff adopted from the very outset of their acquaintance; and Turgénieff was irritated by my father's "crankiness," which distracted him from "his proper métier, literature. Reminiscences of Tolstoy
She is the object of their often distracted attentions, a blonde bombshell and all-around American girl.
Then President Bartlet and CJ, under cover of night, climbed up the outside bluestone circus, where the President set a chair on fire with his cigarette and then distracted the Nazis by pretending to be God. Archive 2009-10-01
I'm so distracted all the time, I just can't stop thinking about him and… ugh!
There is a mild, prickly sensation for 45 minutes as the solution is left to work, but you are distracted with a hand, foot or scalp massage.
Mummy would be crossish, hasty, distracted; then briefly guilty, pliable; then gone again. Land Divers
I have a tendency to scratch vigorously behind my right knee when distracted.
Last week's unedifying "meowing" debate in Canberra demonstrated how easily Ms. Gillard can be distracted from promoting her government's legislative program. When Julia Gillard Went to Canberra
As my sister distracted the guards, I pulled up the hood from my anorak and quickly disappeared into the large crowd.
The scowler distracted me from the t-shirt, but yes, it's an excellent clue. BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
Dave nodded, but seemed distracted by something else, for Christopher had risen from his meditation suddenly, and he was coming out.
No matter how good the opposing goalie is, he can be distracted by traffic in front of his net.
Then again, perhaps we were distracted by thoughts of our little room with the piney smell and stiff sheets.
Keep your nose to the grindstone and do not be distracted. The Sun
I was distracted and irritable when I pulled into the grocery-store parking lot in my cream-colored, recently waxed Volvo.
D. C.-area drivers put up with a lot: Jam-packed roads, distracted drivers and bottlenecked highways, but cars swerving into oncoming traffic just to shave a few seconds off the morning commute is a bit much for some in Arlington - even by area standards. Drivers veering into oncoming traffic
You distract me. I've been distracted since the moment I met you. Because all I can think about is how much I want to kiss you.
Don't be distracted by my foul vocabulary or by your own frustration.
Make sure they are ready to play and not wet, hungry, sleepy, cranky or distracted.
Drivers should have their eyes on the road and be on the lookout for pedestrians and other road users and not be distracted by these signs.
the scrape of violin bows distracted her
Like the other two quartets on this album, it demands your undistracted attention.
A wide range of grape varieties is grown at least passably well, which has distracted from the question of what the district does best.
Only problem was, we were workshopping my piece and I was… well, distracted looking at him.
Yet, when we factionalize, we become distracted by our own machinations, and we forget that no one group of women is more valid or significant than another.
A toddler may tune out and get distracted when pictures in a book become too intricate.
While America is being purposely distracted by Bush's puny, paltry and poor-spirited "War on Terror" and Noah is out shopping for Gucci knock-offs at Target instead of keeping an eye on the ark, our country is being left defenseless, unprotected and without lifeboats while the biggest Flood ever is rapidly heading our way. Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat & Crowded": Replacing the "War on Terror" with a "War on Global Warming"?
She weaves her voice in and out of the song, occasionally distracted by a gap-toothed fan waving at her furiously from the crowd.
In Alice Springs, undistracted by the pressures of big city life, it ought to be easier.
Few things distracted the Pastor from the preparation of his weekly sermons.
Its sheer scale means that it is important at this stage not to be distracted by companies making misleading ethical claims.
Another way is that "inattentive" or distracted driving was recorded as a "primary" factor for just 7% of the 50,430 drivers involved in fatal accidents in 2008. New Puzzle: Why Fewer are Killed in Car Crashes
Let the sunshine in You're going to be unplugging the phone about ten seconds into this disk, since you'll want to enjoy this completely undistracted.
They traveled on to Bydgoszcz, past fields of yellow lupine blow - ing distractedly in the intermittent breezes. Briar Rose
He was still very subdued and distracted so I suggested we go somewhere nice to eat.
The Clinton group problems, teamed with what she calls the dismissive or at best distracted air that characterized communications with the Facebook staff, fueled her fears. Sara Hebert: Facebook: Not Controlling Your Politics
Inside the family hall, frightened speechless, people turned pale and looked at one another distractedly.
I was afraid we were about to be flim-flammed again, as has happened so many times with the Rove Machine, and that the easily-distracted American public would get mesmerized yet again by smooth talk and fairy dust while a Democratic candidate ten times better qualified would go down in defeat AGAIN. Deanie Mills: John McCain's Sarah Bobbitt
In the past, political confrontations with the state and struggles over budgetary allocations distracted us from attending to the poor management of the public university.
In the hallway I was distracted by crying sounds, a woman's cry.
Memories sit waiting at the door of the subconscious, just raring to flood out whenever the gatekeeper is distracted.
On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.
Others wander distracted by music, belly dancers and axemen, all vying for attention - this show is truly massive.
She came back from the telephone booth quickly, looking distracted.
Carl's finally seen enough of the before/after to realize that when it's fear talking, it'll just keep going in harmonic motion unless I'm distracted. The knob theory of the universe
Maybe they are a little bit distracted from having fun and skating with their friends.
The crew of the Vincennes, distracted by an ongoing gunbattle, mistakes the A300 for a hostile military aircraft and destroys it with two surface-to-air missiles.
Rhino, I was distracted by that strange crossdresser with the machinegun. Cheeseburger Gothic » After America book trailer.
He was distracted from his blindness, he says, by the deluge of mental and physical challenges coming his way.
We have been protesting, rallying and mobilising, but we've also been distracted by the more mundane activities of teaching, dissertating, and drinking.
Anna looked up, momentarily distracted by the noise her friends were making.
The midday sun edged onto the papers, but I wasn't distracted. LEGAL TENDER
He was evidently brimful of mischief -- his expression betokened it; no doubt he was one of the most thorough little scamps that ever played at "morra," but there was a charm about his handsome dirty face and unkempt hair, and I watched him amusedly, glad to be distracted for a few minutes from the tired inner workings of my own unhappy thoughts. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
I was distracted from the article by the stool, then distracted from the stool by Natalie Goldberg. Deadline to meet? Go clean that oven…. « Write Anything
Dogs, just like humans, forget, get distracted, make mistakes, get into mischief and act on impulse.
She kept a dancin right up and down, like one ravin distracted mad, and boohooed like any thing, clawin away at her head the whole time, to clear away the stuff that stuck to her wool. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
With Rovers currently hovering dangerously near the relegation zone, it's vital the players are not distracted from the task of trying to secure a priceless away win.
This type of wingnut is incapable of being diverted by the facts, but can only change course when distracted by a newer, shinier talking point … Think Progress » Maryland GOP Senate candidate: ‘I do not believe’ Obama ‘was born in the United States.’
My first weakness is that I get easily distracted when I study.
But before I could open the door, the sound of a car pulling up the gravel driveway behind me distracted my attention.
In an announcement of the new figures, US Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood called distracted driving an "epidemic" and called for tougher local regulations and stricter law enforcement.
He can't help but look around, distracted by the vendors selling cooking oil and the mashed vegetable stew called "legume," the rum stands and the ubiquitous lottery shops where impoverished Haitians place tiny quixotic bets. In Haiti's shattered capital, metal scavengers take to the streets
He detonates distracted droves like dynamite, desolates communities with doublespeak. The Liar
So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.
The woman managed to escape when her captor was distracted and spent more than four hours hiding in scrub as he searched for her with a torch and dog.
She was distracted with anxiety.
He's easily distracted from his work.
A brave little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a large tree. Les Miserables
Depending on how much I'm distracted from the mindless task in hand, it remains there for a period of anything up to six hours (although I do take breaks).
Newhouse has trained himself to function within the din of such noise, undistracted by fan reaction or the ebb and flow of games.
There were songs and dance and poi twirling, demonstrations of how clubs used to be used for cracking and slicing skulls, for ripping off ears, how wavy feathers attached to the handles distracted the enemy.
Some 80% of new registrants have told pollsters they will turn out on Election Day, but young voters in particular are notoriously distracted by such concerns as overdue term papers, bad weather, or good parties.
A note on style – the parenthetical asides sprinkled throughout distracted from the story. CODE MUSTARD • by Chris Allinotte
So remember the big picture and don't get too distracted by what only tomorrow will become history's footnotes.
I never heard anything but I was somewhat distracted at the time.
Maybe it was because the eggplant is called an "Aubergine", which distracted me long enough to actually taste the eggplant. Roasted Baby Eggplant
In England, married women, children, idiots and distracted persons were prohibited from transferring property out of their estates.
He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic.
A more complicated mount might have distracted one's eye from the flowers and the frame.
Most working mothers cite improved focus on their work on returning from leave, and are not distracted clock-watchers.
Lots of smart moviegoers head out on a Saturday night to see a flick they know to be junk, yet precisely to revel in its junkiness, or to ogle its star, or just to get loudly distracted. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
This entire society is geared towards males for a reason:: Because the gods hold the males in disfavor and want them distracted by all the trappings this society has to offer, ensuring they fail. Letter Two
He was distracted with an unhappy love affair.
`Come in,' he said distractedly
Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
I know it's hard or easy to be distracted, especially while grieving, but routine is good. *snugs* Gillpolack: I've been thinking.I am caught between w
Her voice is squeaky and wobbly, the voice of a dithering matron, not a singer; her timing is distracted and irregular.
What Montaigne did not like about the musket is that is separated men from one another and distracted them from the real purpose of fighting. Armor and the Man « So Many Books
And after I wrote that, I had a daymare of seeping, crushing cold innocence rising up from Fort Lauderdale oddly, it's grey with bright purple spots and slowly, implacably crushing all in its way...only to go about 1 tenth of a mile before getting distracted by some of Broward County's more fun sex stores, immediately putting on some nice red stuff and shrivelling up with all of the corruption, unable to resist. Another randomness post:
Mr. Ackman said Tuesday that he is willing to indemnify any pension losses because he doesn't want Mr. Harrison "to be distracted. Stakes Rise in Canadian Railroad Fight
Anyway, I got distracted -- I would love to review WS 2010, and I promise to follow through this time, as I believe I am finally done with the surgeries and such that threw me offtrack last summer. Mroctober: ARCs anyone?
Nothing much happens and when it looks like the film is set to take a certain path, it gets distracted and ambles off on its own.
SCHENECTADY -- Police say a driver distracted while lighting up a cigarette crashed into the DOT building in Schenectady Friday morning. Undefined
Mischel found that while the low delayer stared at the marshmallow until he could resist it no longer, high delayers distracted themselves, often playing with toys or singing while waiting for the researcher to return. Testing for Kindergarten
If they had let me in flight deck while airborne, I'd only have distracted their work with my charm… ahem!
And last night I got distracted from the baseball by some good books from the library (something is wrong with me), including the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Baseball vs. literature
I waited for a few girls to come down the stairs, smiled distractedly at their approving glances, and then hurried upstairs.
The charming waiter spieled about artisanal cheese and day boats and 50 year-old balsamic vinegar and we were so distracted by the Ocean Drive scene we didn't realize we had been bamboozzled and had consumed a meal that set us back half a thousand dollars. Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now

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