distract

Example Sentences

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“It is distracting. Often you’re just buying the problems of the thing that was there.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This is where Howe has previously come into his own, and Hopkinson maintained "we are not distracting ourselves with speculation about what we may or may not do in the summer".

From BBC

But he’s wary of getting distracted from other areas of his business.

From The Wall Street Journal

She came to visit once or twice, always at an inconvenient time, and after her distracted daughter snapped at her during finals week junior year, she didn’t try to visit again.

From Literature

“All of your teachers have said that you seem distracted, and you haven’t been to lunchtime study hall in weeks.”

From Literature