distract
Example Sentences
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Few of King’s staff supported the effort, worrying that the strike — and the planned Poor People’s Campaign in Washington — distracted from the main goal of attaining voting and political rights for Black Americans.
From Los Angeles Times
He eschewed any stylistic qualities drawing attention to the process of filmmaking, deeming "too distracting" the close-ups of mouths talking and body parts that featured in his early films.
From Barron's
Then again, it’s all too easy to be distracted from the desultory happenings on stage.
Each of those stages is one more opportunity for the user to get distracted and for things to fall apart.
The other half will be too distracted to notice.
From Los Angeles Times
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