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Example sentences for: distraction

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

(One wishes the LAT had noted here that Washington produced virtually no non-budgetary legislation last year even without such a distraction.)
Certainly there was much distraction at that point.
3) Many analysts regard Oracle's wager on network computers (an alternative to PCs) as a wasteful distraction.
No one returning from a day at work or rushing through all the errands crammed into a weekend can imagine coping with a child's demands for distraction without recourse to the boob tube.
The merchant seaman, plantation owners, and businessmen who thronged the city streets also looked for the distraction of other pleasures, and prostitution was rife in the less salubrious parts of town.