How To Use distrait In A Sentence
- I know I've had a lot of work at the Bank and have been somewhat distrait. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
- He has always seemed somewhat distrait, but now he has the lost air of a man who has fallen from the heavens into an unknown world.
- He sounds lost—even distrait, whatever that means. Break Time in the Army Corps of Engineers Mascot Lounge
- `John," she said, `you're distrait -- you have been since last night. DOUBLE DECEIT
- She towers over most human beings (myself included) and there's a distrait quality about her eyes.
- Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter. My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica
- Being, however, quite unaccustomed to dealing with this dual condition of mind it is to be feared he was a little "distrait" and mechanical of speech. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker
- His host didn't help either; he was distrait and taciturn, as if he had a premonition of what was to come. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
- It could amount to point-scoring of the shallowest kind to seize upon any philosopher's distrait comments in order to exploit what then becomes a rather too expedient relevance to a question in hand.
- Article XIV: les biens des rebelles de la Vendée sont déclarés appartenir à la république; il en sera distrait une portion pour indemniser les citoyens qui seront demeurés fidèles à la patrie, des pertes qu'ils auraient souffertes. Archive 2007-08-05
