DISTRACTION in a Sentence
Learn DISTRACTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
129 example sentences for DISTRACTION, such as:
1. He's easily distracted from his work.
2. I loved her at that minute to distraction.
3. My attentions are distracted from my study.
4. Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
5. Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
2. I loved her at that minute to distraction.
3. My attentions are distracted from my study.
4. Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
5. Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISTRACTION
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distraction
n. mental turmoil
n. an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1 But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.
2 The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction.
3 I loved her at that minute to distraction.
4 I should always love her, every minute, to distraction.
5 that I would not intrude upon his kindness, were I in any other position than on the confines of distraction.
6 On the contrary, he needed occupation and distraction quite apart from his love, so as to recruit and rest himself from the violent emotions that agitated him.
7 He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.
8 The night was one of feverish distraction, and in its progress visions good and evil passed through Dantes' mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
9 He profited by this distraction to slip away among the crowd, without even thanking the worthy priests who accompanied him.
10 I saw then that we were descending a large staircase; around us were all my mother's servants carrying trunks, bags, ornaments, jewels, purses of gold, with which they were hurrying away in the greatest distraction.
11 That was enough to drive a man to distraction, but it had its charm.
12 You bore me to distraction, said Scarlett coldly, hoping to annoy him and divert him from the ever- unfortunate subject of Ashley.
13 In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.
14 Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child.
15 Day came, and she was transformed again into a grand lady; again she went out, laughed, chattered, and simply flung herself headlong into anything which could afford her the slightest distraction.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 He drives me to distraction, I have to take a break.
2 A very clingy child can drive a parent to distraction.
3 Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
4 He's easily distracted from his work.
5 Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
6 Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
7 The noise in the street distracted me from my reading.
8 My attentions are distracted from my study.
9 His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
10 The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
11 All provinces have some sort of distracted driving-cellphone legislation in place, most banning texting or talking on the phone using a hand-held device, and levying fines if caught.
12 No need to distract from the center ring of this circus.
13 Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.
14 Despite Clark's attempts to distract her with tangential remarks, Lois kept on coming back to her main question: why couldn't he come out to dinner with Superman and her?.
15 She jabbered away, trying to distract his attention.