Example sentences for: distract

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

  • 17 The Supreme Court permitted the Jones suit in part because it would not distract the president from his job.

  • 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.

  • It was reported that Clinton thought a mea culpa would distract from the real tasks of racial healing and could alienate white centrist voters.

  • There are, believe it or not, four separate scenarios suggesting that Clinton may use a war abroad to distract attention from his war at home.

  • 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.


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