How to Use distraction in a Sentence

distraction

noun

• It was hard to work with so many distractions.
• A weekend at the beach was a good distraction from her troubles.
• One of them created a distraction while the other grabbed the money.
• Their endless chatter drove her to distraction.
• That’s a distraction from the greater magic of that night.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
• One day, her brothers forced her to leave the house and go to the gym as a healthy distraction.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• Wait for your most creative time of the day, and turn off any distractions.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• The toys are a distraction, Roberts said, and help put kids at ease before surgery.
  — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
• There’s tours going around the building and there’s a lot of distractions.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
• There’s a time—a moment in the process—for distraction, and a time to put distraction away.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
• The very act of climbing this mountain was a distraction.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• What’s the best way to manage distractions while studying for the CPA exam?
  — Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Dressing up one focal point in the room can have more impact that lots of distractions here and there.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
• All of which served as excellent distractions from the dumpster fire that is life on Earth in 2023.
  — Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
• Speaking to reporters after the win, Mulkey said the profile was not a distraction.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• Can San Diego, with its multitude of coastal distractions, prop up a top-tier sports league?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The lack of distraction that comes with being unconnected to the depths of the internet.
  — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
• Finally, there are a ton of distractions during the day.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Oct. 2023
• Lauren Goode: How much of this is a distraction from the threat of regulation?
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• There’s a sofa and blankets, where the women can rest for the hours and sometimes days the process takes, and board games and a movie projector for distraction.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
• Who’s the most surprisingly good trash talker? Kohan: One of the key goals of trash talk is to cause distraction.
  — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• The league has said players opting out of Pride nights served as a distraction to the work its teams were doing in the community.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
• My husband drives me to distraction by leaving chairs pulled out at odd angles away from the table.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• The longer the programs stay off the air, the greater the risk that viewers will start new habits or discover other choices for midnight distraction..
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• For men's marathon winner Jason Salyer, the weather wasn't much of a distraction since there were bigger fish to fry.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 7 May 2023
• Others were drawn to the colorful candy that had been placed as distractions.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Take a break There are several ways to block out the distraction of email beyond just never opening it.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Cutting out the distraction is the only way to enter that near-meditative state that all good hunters strive for.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2023
• The current debate as to whether open or closed advanced AI models are safer or better is a distraction.
  — Rebecca Finlay, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• Majors, whose off-screen drama either will or won’t prove to be a point of distraction, is at least getting to make choices.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024