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    Use "distraction" in a sentence

    distraction example sentences

    distraction


    1. Dharana is training the mind to focus without any distraction


    2. As I read through my notes, yet again, the telephone on my desk rings and, almost grateful for the distraction, I pick up the receiver, not really concentrating on it


    3. While her husband and daughter found comfort in its reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the faintest note


    4. She didn’t need the distraction of another soul accidentally brought aboard the expedition at this time


    5. reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the


    6. The medic finds a vein and despite the distraction of rapid motion caused by hanging drip lines he is deft and assured as he inserts a catheter into her forearm, hooks up a bag of saline and begins to administer four hundred micrograms of naloxone through the intravenous connection that is keeping Bex in touch with the physical world around her


    7. Anything that breaks the harsh aroma of the institution, that softens the lines in this house of pain, is a welcome distraction to the morbidity of their own skin


    8. Then just as suddenly, habit, distraction, and old postures resume and all is as it was before


    9. Thane used the distraction to mount and flee


    10. distraction would have been enough

    11. Offenses can be a major distraction from the will of God in our lives


    12. There are people that the enemy will send as a distraction from God’s purposes


    13. So all I have to offer is that aluminum," she said while rubbing against his side, "And maybe a little distraction


    14. "I wouldn't be chasing Alan today anyway, but I'm ready for all of that distraction you care to lavish on me," he said, confident now that she was playing him better than he was playing her and unable to do anything about it


    15. "Sure, we can tell him all this, and I'm sure a little of this distraction would be as effective on him as it is on me


    16. Plus it was a great distraction from my recent divorce


    17. Yet the name’s familiarity drove her to distraction


    18. This permits him to hone in on minute movements on the forest floor that would surely go undetected by you and me—not only due to our lesser developed ear antennas we’ve got plopped on each side, but more so caused by our constant inner noise and mental distraction that we are subjected to by our ever-present and overly-active ego


    19. She was glad for the distraction and quickly made her way towards him


    20. At first Rachel didn’t want to come along, but Helez pleaded with her until she gave in – Rachel needed the distraction

    21. "I fear the animal must have been driven to distraction by your meandering monologues


    22. I had some flares in my glove box I could use for a distraction if absolutely necessary, but I wanted to save them if I could


    23. The military force has never yet been sufficient for their own defence; and in the different wars in which the mother countries have been engaged, the defence of their colonies has generally occasioned a very considerable distraction of the military force of those countries


    24. What it might lose by the high price of those goods, could seldom be equal to the loss which it would sustain by the distraction of a large portion of its capital from other employments more necessary, or more useful, or more suitable to its circumstances and situation, than a direct trade to the East Indies


    25. Her long legs extended and crossed, were a distraction


    26. And this morning she seemed like a extra distraction


    27. The bleakness would permeate them both if he didn’t say something just as a distraction


    28. Glen made use of the distraction by sweeping his hand up, disabling Russell’s knife hand and rolling him over to switch positions


    29. From what I’ve seen this thing hasn’t offered up any useful information, has failed to prove that it is what it claims to be and is proving to be a big distraction


    30. wasn't even awake, without the distraction of a

    31. distraction he needed to take his mind off the


    32. He wasn’t the only person who had noticed Khan’s distraction, and Alexia had made her decision


    33. Sometimes the girls could be a distraction


    34. I won’t let it become a distraction


    35. It’s tough enough without this kind of a distraction


    36. ‘He has moved on from you; the distraction will hinder his progress


    37. The theory being that one scenario could apply to the entire population, and at the same time provide sufficient distraction for the recipients, rather than allowing a compounding number of implausible occurrences


    38. But, Jason, he would engineer some sort of distraction device on a motorized pulley system out of his Erector set and Legos


    39. Certainly, his leaving provided a much-needed distraction for them if not a diversion


    40. Well, this is the least tedious chat I’ve had in a long time, and I could use a distraction

    41. Some readers, all women, judging by their names, told me they found this uninteresting if not plain boring and a horrible distraction


    42. “This is more of a distraction than I had in mind,” he said, fear creeping into his voice


    43. “It was meant primarily as a distraction


    44. Maybe she could still provide the distraction that would lower Arbitan’s defenses


    45. Surely, all that pain provided the ultimate distraction


    46. The rest of you, a distraction would be good


    47. distraction, and finally the apple of his eye


    48. Any distraction she could provide to tilt the odds toward Sicarius she would


    49. “They started a fight and stole an enforcer truck in order to provide a distraction for me


    50. Discordant (human) emotions are oftentimes the result of conflicting designs that drive an individual to distraction or despair; individuals who have lost sight of themselves; that is to say, of their intended purpose, that render their lives uncertain or without meaning










































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    Synonyms for "distraction"

    distraction misdirection beguilement pastime entertainment preoccupation engrossment game perplexity abstraction complication

    "distraction" definitions

    mental turmoil


    an obstacle to attention


    an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations


    the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something