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Example sentences for: distract

How can you use “distract” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It was reported that Clinton thought a mea culpa would distract from the real tasks of racial healing and could alienate white centrist voters.
The Washington Post groaned that Burton "once again lived up to his caricature" as an overzealous idiot and pointed out that his real crime has been to distract attention from the transcripts, which indicate that White House "emissaries" encouraged Hubbell and his wife to fear their livelihood depended on remaining silent about the Clintons' roles in Whitewater.
Adding fillers to distract them is considered unfair.
Republicans fear that if he picks his issues carefully--education or the environment, not the IMF (too foreign)--vetoes some of the spending bills, and blocks a continuing resolution, he could galvanize disaffected Democrats in Congress and distract voters from Flytrap.
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.