distracting
Example Sentences
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The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Owens herself manages to do a bang-up job of distracting people from the way she doesn’t practice what she preaches.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Briton wore ear plugs during each change of ends, just as he did at Wimbledon to maintain his focus and block out any distracting noise.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
And then, are all these added elements distracting?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
That was very different, Bunderson thought, from, say, eating, which no one was arguing was inherently distracting, not creating a cognitive load.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
