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Example sentences for: distract

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This is a useful way to distract the reader's attention from gaps in logic and evidence, just as curry and spices were once used to make bad meat palatable.
The paper goes on to quote Clinton responding yesterday by accusing the Republicans of trying to distract the American people from the GOP record.
It was reported that Clinton thought a mea culpa would distract from the real tasks of racial healing and could alienate white centrist voters.
Culturebox will appeal to history, that defense of scoundrels, to argue that television seems a pretty harmless way to distract children, at least when you compare it to the alternatives.
USA Today , the New York Times and the WP all run President Clinton's forceful response to the suggestion made previously by senior Republicans that he ordered the airstrikes to distract from the drive to impeachment: "I don't think any serious person would believe that any president would do such a thing."