How To Use Distrait In A Sentence
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I know I've had a lot of work at the Bank and have been somewhat distrait.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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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.
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He sounds lost—even distrait, whatever that means.
Break Time in the Army Corps of Engineers Mascot Lounge
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`John," she said, `you're distrait -- you have been since last night.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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She towers over most human beings (myself included) and there's a distrait quality about her eyes.
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Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter.
My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Philips in 1705, “Col. Frond is just as he was, very friendly and grand reveur et distrait.
The Journal to Stella
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"Sure, son, sure," Jack answered with a distrait tone.
Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
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Though haggard and distrait, Cooke was still every inch the buckra, or Jamaican planter.
My travels: Ian Thomson in Jamaica
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“Sure, son, sure,” Jack answered with a distrait tone.
Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
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I took care never to be absent or 'distrait'; but on the contrary, attended to everything that was said, done, or even looked, in company; I never failed in the minutest attentions and was never 'journalier'.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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I had run out of Vesta curries -- the only hot food I knew how to cook -- and was too distrait for a salad.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Set in Paris in 1928, Hastings's play focuses on Joyce's distrait daughter, Lucia.
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Perhaps, patients about to undergo operations at the hands of distrait surgeons could be allowed to get their tattoos done on the NHS.
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His manner was, I thought, a shade distrait, a little other worldly.
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My Friend WILL HONEYCOMB is one of those Sort of Men who are very often absent in Conversation, and what the _French_ call _a reveur_ and _a distrait_.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
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But, as someone about to construct a bomb might appear distrait anyway, the judgment was difficult.
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He still looks somewhat distrait, however, and retains that wild look in his eyes which in a Highlander would mean that he was "fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.
The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales
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Although her journey into madness is somewhat short-circuited, Rachel Pickup is also a frighteningly distrait Ophelia.
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Auntie became excessively pale, and was sometimes quite "distrait" and bewildered-looking, which was little wonder, considering all she had to do and arrange.
The Laurel Bush
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Her Kitchen Essays appeared first in the Times, and have what Nicola Humble accurately calls a "slightly distrait charm" (what on earth to do when cook is away?).
Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes