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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:

Where Swayambhunath is cluttered with monuments in different styles, at Boudhanath there are no other temples to distract pilgrims.
Foer and Gore offered to distract Gates with their vaudeville act while Sobel and Hohlt snuck the pages into his browser cache.
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.
But this anti-Internet alarmism is a heavy-handed attempt to distract attention from the really dangerous medium: paper.
"They don't want to give us any chance to recover and distract from the Starr report and unify us.