distraction

[dɪˈstrækʃn]

Definition:
1. Mental turmoil.
2. An obstacle to attention.
3. An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations.
4. The act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something.

Use 'distraction' in a sentence:

1. What's interesting is that birds have different levels of performance of these distraction displays.
2. The last thing I needed was the distraction of learning another way of managing to-do lists.
3. It causes lots of distraction to drivers.
4. The lesson was so interesting that all the students fixed their eyes on the teacher without any distraction.
5. Annoyed by the level of distraction in his open office, he said, "That's why I have a membership at the coworking space across the street—so I can focus".
6. Standard Evaluation System for New Distraction Osteogenesis Method for Cleft Palate Repairing.
7. A Londoner born and bred, she suspected that a month in the country would bore her to distraction.
8. They make you less productive and lazy. Keep a check on your distractions.
9. Second, while the design process is happening, the author is generally in the last harrowing stage of editing their manuscript and doesn't want any distraction.
10. The arctic tern resists distraction because it is driven at that moment by an instinctive sense of something we humans find admirable: larger purpose.
11. The techniques of reframing and distraction can alleviate depression and anxiety as well as anger.
12. A space with no distractions opens the lines of communication.
13. The children are driving me to distraction today.
14. I don't know, you know, like a distraction.
15. Kayla's coughing was driving me to distraction.
16. Those only repeating words performed the same as those with no distraction, but those with the more complicated task showed even worse reaction times—an average of 480 milliseconds extra delay.
17. Another version of this kind of distraction display is where the bird creates the impression of a mouse or some other small animals that's running along the ground.
18. I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions.
19. It’s no surprise that someone attempted to design an objective way to measure distraction.
20. Results: A three-dimensional finite element model of human mandibular distraction was constructed.
21. Either of them are enough to drive a man to distraction.
22. If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.
23. There was distraction in the thought.
24. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult concept to many people.
25. When the children have a larger number of toys there seems to be a distraction element, and when children are distracted they do not learn or play well.
26. Three-dimensional Finite Element Study on Middle Face Advancement with Distraction Osteogenesis.
27. Most of the time, when birds are engaging in distraction displays, they are going to be pretending either that they have an injury or that they're ill or that they're exhausted.
28. The mobile phone was a distraction to students during school hours and it also brought teachers so much trouble in class before.
29. A threat, or a distraction?
30. An expert said mobile phone use was a distraction to students during school hours.
31. Carson was headed down a path of self-distraction until a critical moment in his youth.
32. Driven to distraction, he murdered the woman who jilted him.
33. That means people were not blocking out the distraction.
34. I'm getting driven to distraction by the way that Ryan keeps tapping his fingers on the desk.
35. It was little more than a speed bump – a minor distraction during my day.
36. What they don't need to do—what would be a distraction—is to have to think about where their fingers are, or how to control the ball while running.
37. Zenware is a software designed to block visual distractions on a computer so that it is easier to concentrate on what you are doing.
38. I feel this is getting to be a distraction from what I really want to do.
39. I think this is a big distraction from reporting on the process of science.
40. We are going to start by talking about what are known as distraction displays.
41. I clear away distractions and do the important things.
42. I like to work in a quiet room with no distractions.
43. Objective To investigate the mechanism and the optimal time of delayed distraction.
44. It's easy to blame technology for being so distracting, but distraction is nothing new.
45. Total concentration is required with no distractions.
46. Weapon of mass distraction is a pun-perfect play on weapon of mass destruction. The latter phrase ( in its plural2 form) was voted word of the year for 2002 by the American Dialect Society.
47. Background noise in the classroom becomes a major distraction, which can affect their ability to concentrate.
48. To measure the effects of Internet-based distractions during class, researchers evaluated 500 students taking an introductory psychology class at Michigan State University.
49. A steady stream of similar headlines accuse the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction.
50. Maybe the Super Bowl will be the weapon of mass distraction that Bush has been praying for.
51. One pretty common distraction display is what's called the broken-wing display.
52. The behaviors that the birds engage in to distract predators are called distraction displays.
53. A very clingy child can drive a parent to distraction.
54. Alex Pang's amusing new book The Distraction Addiction addresses those of us who feel panic without a cellphone or computer.
55. Their national distraction is going to the disco.
56. Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction ― employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.