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distract English

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distract

If you distract someone, you make them pay attention to something different than what they were paying attention to before. The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.

distract

(= deflect) draw someone's attention away from something The thief distracted the bystanders He deflected his competitors (= perturb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

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distract · verb

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Simple sentences

Please don't distract me from my work.
Don't distract me while I am studying.
Apparently he wanted to distract her.
I tried to distract him, but it was in vain.
I'll try to distract them.
Tom tried to distract the guards so Mary would have a chance to escape.
In order to distract the population from their true intrigues, the politicians devised some half-hearted reforms.
Don't distract me from studying.
Are you trying to distract me?
I was trying to distract her.
Don't distract me.
Don't let her distract you.
Tom tried to distract the police so Mary could escape.
Don't distract me anymore.
Nothing will distract us.

Movie subtitles

It chose a crew of single men with nothing to distract them from the course they were to sail.
You must distract him until I get out of here.
Find something else to distract me.
What could be easier than to distract with a story of press gangs?
Just because he may distract other students, they told me not to come.
Did nothing else distract you?
And no movement, nothing that will distract the audience from him.
Cowboy clowns also distract the bull when the cowboy gets bucked off.
Now and then, when the storm inside me gets too loud. I take a glass too much to distract me.
Go away, Anatole, you'll distract us.
I'll run and distract them.
Any noise could distract her.
I'll go around the back. Go in the front and distract him.
Distract me!
It'll be up to your beautiful eyes, to distract the czar with more agreeable matters, making him forget the high politics.
He caused a man to be murdered solely in order to distract me.
Please be so good as to stop pacing Watson, you distract me.
Don't try to distract me.
You need to distract yourself. You cannot always meditate.
Listen! I'll run and distract them. Escape while you can.
Go in the front and distract him.
Don't distract me.
Well, unfortunately, cheap women distract Louis Antonizzi.
You must distract yourself to regain your zest for life.
Anne should distract Lyne.
We took Emperor for a walk just to distract him a little.
And I'd not do one single thing to distract you, unless you wanted to be distracted.
Distract myself?
I learned of your solitude from Compardon. I thought a book would distract you.
You always distract me in the middle of work!
Oh, don't distract me, please.
That'll distract me.
They could get as drunk as skunks, it wouldn't distract them anymore.
The one to distract the Daleks on the city wall side and the others to try and force a way through the mountains.
Never let wine or women distract your thoughts from battle.

News and current affairs

By focusing the QE debate on risk-sharing, Draghi managed to distract Germany from an infinitely more important issue: the enormous size of the QE program, which completely defied the German taboo against monetary financing of government debts.
But some calls for international coordination are less useful, particularly when the aim is to blame foreigners in order to distract attention from domestic constraints and disagreements.
Incremental measures will only distract us from the scope of the challenges that we confront.
Unfortunately, its main impact at this point is to distract attention from measures that would truly stimulate growth, including an expansionary fiscal policy and financial-sector reforms that boost lending.
But the point is to fix eyes and hearts on a narrative of hope and purpose - to uplift, rather than distract, the public.
The rest of the world should recognize the benefits of allowing short-term disruptions to drive, not distract from, the sustainability agenda.
The fires of the Middle East must not be allowed to distract the world's attention from the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions, which it demonstrated by its recent test of a long-range missile.
It is also possible that he sought to distract domestic attention from a shrinking economy and the rising cost of intervention in Ukraine.
But the possibility of violence should not distract us from noticing that fundamentalist convictions also motivate positive political activism.
As US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has argued, trade expansion inevitably creates some losers, whose protests distract attention from the benefits of globalization.
Thus, anything that may distract China from its focus on peace, stability, and development has been strongly resisted.
But it should not distract us from the fundamentals of Iranian politics.
And, instead of reducing the chances of a nuclear standoff in South Asia, the White House plan served only to distract attention from efforts to address tensions between India and Pakistan.
But Putin was addressing Russians, too, knowing full well the need to distract them from their country's increasingly obvious economic woes.
Dealing with the short-run challenges of the current crisis should not distract us from the objective of preventing future meltdowns.
This is inevitable, but it should not distract us from the main findings.
Placebos may have their place in medicine, but when they distract from efforts to address the underlying malady, they can do more harm than good.
And, at a time of domestic hardship and diplomatic isolation, North Korea's leaders, their confidence boosted by their possession of nuclear weapons, might try to distract their public through audacious, and possibly destructive, acts abroad.

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