Words similar to distracting
Example sentences for: distracting
How can you use “distracting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Whatever surprises Arquette might once have had are long gone; the only thing mysterious about her is those long, distracting fangs.
She then goes on to extol the virtues of our beloved IRS, distracting us from the actual percentage of our income that is being taken.
The result is this hodgepodge of distracting literary techniques that are only intermittently effective and mostly deeply distracting from, even destructive to, his principal goal.
Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."
The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting
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