Use "distraction" in a sentence

1. Dharana is training the mind to focus without any distraction

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2. As I read through my notes, yet again, the telephone on my desk rings and, almost grateful for the distraction, I pick up the receiver, not really concentrating on it

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3. While her husband and daughter found comfort in its reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the faintest note

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4. She didn’t need the distraction of another soul accidentally brought aboard the expedition at this time

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5. reassuring presence, Helen was driven to distraction by even the

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6. The medic finds a vein and despite the distraction of rapid motion caused by hanging drip lines he is deft and assured as he inserts a catheter into her forearm, hooks up a bag of saline and begins to administer four hundred micrograms of naloxone through the intravenous connection that is keeping Bex in touch with the physical world around her

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7. Anything that breaks the harsh aroma of the institution, that softens the lines in this house of pain, is a welcome distraction to the morbidity of their own skin

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8. Then just as suddenly, habit, distraction, and old postures resume and all is as it was before

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9. Thane used the distraction to mount and flee

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10. distraction would have been enough

11. Offenses can be a major distraction from the will of God in our lives

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12. There are people that the enemy will send as a distraction from God’s purposes

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13. So all I have to offer is that aluminum," she said while rubbing against his side, "And maybe a little distraction

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14. "I wouldn't be chasing Alan today anyway, but I'm ready for all of that distraction you care to lavish on me," he said, confident now that she was playing him better than he was playing her and unable to do anything about it

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15. "Sure, we can tell him all this, and I'm sure a little of this distraction would be as effective on him as it is on me

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16. Plus it was a great distraction from my recent divorce

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17. Yet the name’s familiarity drove her to distraction

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18. This permits him to hone in on minute movements on the forest floor that would surely go undetected by you and me—not only due to our lesser developed ear antennas we’ve got plopped on each side, but more so caused by our constant inner noise and mental distraction that we are subjected to by our ever-present and overly-active ego

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19. She was glad for the distraction and quickly made her way towards him

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20. At first Rachel didn’t want to come along, but Helez pleaded with her until she gave in – Rachel needed the distraction

21. "I fear the animal must have been driven to distraction by your meandering monologues

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22. I had some flares in my glove box I could use for a distraction if absolutely necessary, but I wanted to save them if I could

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23. The military force has never yet been sufficient for their own defence; and in the different wars in which the mother countries have been engaged, the defence of their colonies has generally occasioned a very considerable distraction of the military force of those countries

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24. What it might lose by the high price of those goods, could seldom be equal to the loss which it would sustain by the distraction of a large portion of its capital from other employments more necessary, or more useful, or more suitable to its circumstances and situation, than a direct trade to the East Indies

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25. Her long legs extended and crossed, were a distraction

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26. And this morning she seemed like a extra distraction

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27. The bleakness would permeate them both if he didn’t say something just as a distraction

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28. Glen made use of the distraction by sweeping his hand up, disabling Russell’s knife hand and rolling him over to switch positions

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29. From what I’ve seen this thing hasn’t offered up any useful information, has failed to prove that it is what it claims to be and is proving to be a big distraction

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30. wasn't even awake, without the distraction of a

31. distraction he needed to take his mind off the

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32. He wasn’t the only person who had noticed Khan’s distraction, and Alexia had made her decision

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33. Sometimes the girls could be a distraction

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34. I won’t let it become a distraction

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35. It’s tough enough without this kind of a distraction

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36. ‘He has moved on from you; the distraction will hinder his progress

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37. The theory being that one scenario could apply to the entire population, and at the same time provide sufficient distraction for the recipients, rather than allowing a compounding number of implausible occurrences

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38. But, Jason, he would engineer some sort of distraction device on a motorized pulley system out of his Erector set and Legos

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39. Certainly, his leaving provided a much-needed distraction for them if not a diversion

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40. Well, this is the least tedious chat I’ve had in a long time, and I could use a distraction

41. Some readers, all women, judging by their names, told me they found this uninteresting if not plain boring and a horrible distraction

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42. “This is more of a distraction than I had in mind,” he said, fear creeping into his voice

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43. “It was meant primarily as a distraction

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44. Maybe she could still provide the distraction that would lower Arbitan’s defenses

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45. Surely, all that pain provided the ultimate distraction

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46. The rest of you, a distraction would be good

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47. distraction, and finally the apple of his eye

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48. Any distraction she could provide to tilt the odds toward Sicarius she would

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49. “They started a fight and stole an enforcer truck in order to provide a distraction for me

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50. Discordant (human) emotions are oftentimes the result of conflicting designs that drive an individual to distraction or despair; individuals who have lost sight of themselves; that is to say, of their intended purpose, that render their lives uncertain or without meaning

51. However, even without Egan there, the prospect of games at the camp was enough of a distraction, so much so that I could not finish the assignment

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52. It was a grateful distraction and for once, listening to them talk about cars was enjoyable

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53. No one else was trying to bypass the distraction, or whatever it was

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54. Was my own cancer so new that I couldn’t get beyond my own experiences and see what was needed? Was my reason for starting the group just an empty distraction? In losing that group, I felt cancer had won again

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55. shook off the distraction

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56. used his horse as a distraction

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57. We needed some positive spin and distraction

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58. How do I get to your place?” Now there"s a distraction

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59. While everyone around me stood warily their ground, and me knowing full well that this was a distraction my plan had not accounted for I stood up, dusted off my too-tight-for-comfort football pants and replied:

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60. She described herself as being in a “state of distraction” for the next few months, but she had continued to do hospital work

61. If she started howling, it wouldn’t be a distraction

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62. He decided he wanted a nice distraction, something to take his mind of a situation he now felt powerless to amend

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63. The physical and mental exertion involved in being constantly on the alert to their surroundings, made more acute by his recent experience with the men he had killed, provided a distraction that lasted throughout the day’s journey

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64. Wearing the glasses was a distraction at first, but by the time he was seated in his train compartment, he had become passably used to their presence

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65. That time so long ago, she mused, the old thought, still clear after so many years, when the heavens were my only source of inspiration that offered a distraction from my lonely vigil

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66. After—she struggled through—it was my work that has been my greatest distraction from what could never again be for me

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67. I thought that all the questions had been settled once and for all at the meeting in Jerusalem when Paul had first been challenged! he plunged on after the visual distraction

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68. When Jesus came onto the scene of this ancient diorama, he was an instantly polarizing distraction to the Jewish yearning for the appearance of another champion, the new judge who would resurrect their national entity, and identity once more as the Hasmonean Maccabees had seemed to accomplish for a while, during the interregnum in which the Greeks tried to fend off Roman incursions into their fractured Hellenistic world

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69. Kosmo says it’s a combination of the Law of Projection and the Law of Distraction

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70. This was the Law of Distraction in action

71. difficult to get home, but Nelson has created a distraction with the

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72. He seemed to welcome the distraction

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73. Noah was both a comfort and a distraction, but she still loved Daniel

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74. This was exactly the sort of distraction she needed, and she soaked it all in like a healing balm for her aching heart

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75. distraction and he was the first to reach the centre and dance in

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76. A short time later he was nudged out of his distraction by the guards and led back into the courtroom, if a thousand eyes were upon him in there he never noticed them

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77. This was a welcome distraction

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78. A screen flickered into life and broadcast the BBC; a welcome distraction he thought but to his absolute horror they had flashed a breaking news item across the current show

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79. we’re having fun now!) It wasn’t much, but it was a distraction, and it got

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80. I have very white skin, and I am slightly built which used to drive my father to distraction, as he always wanted a heavy thick set oaf he could intimidate, and what he got was an acting-scared kid, who would run to his mother each time he roared out some command I was expected to follow

81. I took Frank’s moment of distraction and snapped the neck of the man that was holding me

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82. After saying goodbye to Jesse, I immediately went back into the house and called Carmen, I was going to need a distraction for the next couple of days and she was perfect for the job

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83. distraction and a nuisance, for it merely increases the false con-

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84. Why not? I could use a distraction from everything

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85. “Could I become more than just a distraction?”

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86. The shouted words were unintelligible to viewers watching television but a few council members pulled their eyes from Arakiel to look toward the distraction

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87. Even though Joyce Kellogue was a master’s daughter, she took delight in exhibiting her obvious charms in a way that drove the masculine populace to distraction

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88. You’ll likely be surprised with how much time you waste wandering the internet in distraction

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89. Was a distraction

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90. ” Alilia said, glad for this distraction from her ire

91. Kami was no longer visible, but Yania thanked her in thought as she fled, taking advantage of the monster’s distraction

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92. With the light-hearted and senseless distraction of

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93. In need of a momentary distraction her thoughts drifted to the boy that was guiding them

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94. I say that you go and find her while I make a distraction

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95. Their love is helping them to deal with the horror of their memory of death, as is the distraction of the work

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