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Example sentences for: distractions

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21 El General --During the Spanish Civil War, a dedicated engineer (Buster Keaton) keeps his train running despite the distractions of his gorgeous assistant (Sophia Loren).
The school, which receives half of its funding from donations, distances inner-city kids from the distractions they face at home.
He can ill afford the politically motivated distractions posed by Jones and others.
Our presidents and prime ministers have never had such problems, partly because they are almost always Christian Democrats, or at any rate very Catholic, at least in words, and partly because they are almost always ugly and old and shadowed by energetic wives who do not permit them any distractions, or they are widowers pledged to chastity."
Then, with no more time for distractions, he resumed his trudge through various learned sources (mainly works by John Kenneth Galbraith), denouncing "free markets" this way and that.