traction

How To Use traction In A Sentence

• There is still a level of abstraction (you're manipulating something removed from the screen) but it's more concretized now. MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle?
• It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
• This was physical attraction, sexual temptation, nothing more.
• The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
• I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions.
• The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
• The cool thing about naziism is — yes, nazis have at least one positive — is that anyone who falls for that ideology, however briefly and despite any following retractions, can be written of as a buffoon en toto and forever. The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
• The process of inspiration is active and requires energy for muscle contraction.
• 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.
• The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.