Definition: 1. Draw someone's attention away from something. 2. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
Use 'distract' in a sentence:
1. It serves to distract a predator while the octopus makes its escape.
2. I can't let myself be distracted by those things.
3. "We need to distract the old mother bear somehow," said Fox.
4. But progress should never distract us from the challenges.
5. Don't let the future distract you from the present day.
6. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework.
7. You can distract yourself.
8. Or does it distract you more often than not?
9. It is all a ploy to distract attention from his real aim.
10. When you are studying for a test, it can get boring and then you can get distracted.
11. Like Schwartz and so many others, I often find myself distracted and off tack.
12. He was one of my most able pupils, but far too easily distracted by frivolities.
13. It's easier to distract yourself when running outside.
14. Your aim should be to distract yourself.
15. He closed his eyes to put a stop to all distracting thoughts, sitting there quietly and peacefully.
16. There are plenty of games to distract you, too.
17. I owe you this duty and nothing will distract me from it.
18. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.
19. We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.
20. The intention was to distract egg-laying females from furniture or structual wood.
21. Don't be distracted while driving a car.
22. The vast majority of sites distract the user with too much “stuff”.
23. She had seemed curiously distracted.
24. But does grunting distract an opponent?
25. Their penchant for social drama is not — or not only — a way of distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults crazy.
26. Germany hoped this would distract the US from entering WWI.
27. It does not distract the user with unnecessary information.
28. It was all a ploy to distract attention from his real aims.
29. They can both distract and reward you.
30. You're distracting me from my work.
31. But don't let that distract you.
32. The celebrations distracted public attention from the government's problems.
33. Many studies claim that computers distract people, make them lazy thinkers and even lower their work efficiency.
34. Some people worry that the wide media coverage about public figures will distract people's attention from really important issues.
35. She seemed less like a poetess than a distracted housewife.
36. It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.
37. But that shouldn't distract us from the song's impact on its fans.
38. It's distracting to have someone watching me while I work.
39. Creating a useful homepage that doesn't distract is no small feat.
40. He's easily distracted.
41. Two eagles were trying to take a lamb from its mother and were struggling. A third eagle came in to distract the ewe and one of the others got the lamb.
42. Messy stuffs will distract ones attention and affect studying mood.
43. Police in France are looking for two attractive female thieves who bared their breasts at a man at a cashpoint to distract him before stealing his money.
44. A disturbance in the street distracted my attention.
45. There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.
46. She was unpredictable, explosive, impulsive and easily distracted.
47. When working, one should concentrate and not allow oneself to be distracted.
48. Don't talk to her ─ she's very easily distracted.
49. Some people oppose the universities open to the tourists on the ground that it will distract the attention of the students as well as the teachers.
50. Few things distracted the Pastor from the preparation of his weekly sermons.
51. Don't let yourself be distracted by fashionable theories.
52. Countryside robbers are learning the ways of the wild west by stampeding cattle to distract farmers before raiding their homes.
53. The behaviors that the birds engage in to distract predators are called distraction displays.
54. But students who surfed the web during class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACT scores, suggesting that even the academically smartest students are harmed when they're distracted in class.
55. It was another attempt to distract attention from the truth.
56. For example, we can change how often we receive the distracting notifications that trigger our urge to check.
