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Example sentences for: distracts

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Simply say, "Mother, you know I love you, but the noise of your eating while talking on the phone distracts me from what you're saying."
He rushes, slurs, put the right emphasis on the wrong words, and twists his face up into a half-smirk that distracts you from the message.
But for those of us who cherish art for art's sake, gussying it up with photos, paint samples, and teapots merely trivializes and distracts.
The Times of London, urging "an immediate intensification of military activities aimed directly at the Yugoslav army" in Kosovo, said in an editorial Monday that it is not so evident that the "Somalia Syndrome" "really affects ordinary Americans as much as it distracts their nervous elected representatives."
The other overhyped controversy that distracts ethicists from the real action is cloning.