The little Volanges is ready, I will answer for her; all now depends upon the opportunity which I take upon me to provide: but not so with Madame de Tourvel; this woman distracts me.
Mr. de Valmont and Danceny--the very name of Danceny distracts me--How shall I begin?
Any screen Turns white by contrast with the tragic pall; And her dubiety distracts at least, As well as snow, from such decided black.
Sidenote: His beauty of style often distracts from the thought.
But, above all, his richness distracts attention from matter to manner.
The radio distracts me: it stops me from thinking about lyrics.
When there's an extended piece of music, they usually cloud it up with dancing girls and trick lighting and anything that distracts from the music, instead of presenting the music as the attraction, the way they do in Europe.
The sensation produced by the paper on the cutaneous nerves distracts the attention and brings about relaxation of the muscles with decrease of discomfort and gradual relief of all symptoms.
Breathing exercises and especially slow expiration is an excellent thing in these cases and distractstheir attention from themselves and their speech.
Practically all the cures recommended contain some element which distracts the attention from the speech to something else and so permits the function of the speech organs to proceed undisturbed.
Delay to me is insufferable; suspense distracts me; and the possibility that another should be preferred to myself drives me mad!
But the dread of a flagrant, an odious injusticedistracts me, and I know not where or of whom to seek consolation.
I am willing to think that all these things would not greatly interfere with Father Lallemant's study of the language; as for me, I say it before God, it distracts me greatly therefrom.
The saying is not invariably true in the application it commonly receives--that is, a politician may have some other employment of intellect, which rather enlarges his powers than distracts their political uses.
Pass on,--or rather pass back; you say you have tried all in life that distracts or sweetens.
I have not; and Agrippina's beautifully ringed tail flapping across my copy distracts my attention and imperils the neatness of my penmanship.
Both perhaps are self-contained and philosophic beings, yet its cry distracts them; scatters their composure to the winds.
The fallacy that the excitement of games distracts the attention of youth from the processes of sex-development has been disproved.
Yet it is most vital to clarify to the People the purpose of my act, the circumstances-- The heavy breathing opposite distracts me.
My firm faith in the two confidants distracts me with uncertainty and suspense.
An airman is accustomed to the full roar of his engine, and it never distracts his attention, any more than the noise of a waterfall distracts those who live near it.
If I go to see a man, it distracts me to have to talk and it distracts me to hear him talking.
The contemplation of nature and of bodies in their individual form distracts and weakens the understanding; but the contemplation of nature and of bodies in their general composition and formation stupefies and relaxes it.
But natural and experimental history is so varied and diffuse, that it confounds and distracts the understanding unless it be fixed and exhibited in due order.
Distrahit animum librorum multitudo=--A multitude of booksdistracts the mind.
A small sorrowdistracts us, a great one makes= 55 =us collected.
Not one of these men could have written the following sentence: "Marriage distracts our attention from the real sexual duties, and this is one of its worst effects" (p.
Like many other policies advocated on behalf of the poor, birth control is immoral if only on this account, that it distractsattention from the real causes of poverty.
In a safer position than most is the Doge's Palace, that magnificent construction which almost distracts attention from S.
To this building, which faces the Doge's Palace, no higher tribute could be given than to say that its perfection fairly distracts the admiration of the onlooker from the wonderful Gothic pile before it.
The English taste on this point distracts and fatigues us, we love a simple plot that can be grasped at once.
In the same way great mental suffering makes us insensible to bodily pain; we despise it; nay, if it should outweigh the other, it distractsour thoughts, and we welcome it as a pause in mental suffering.
That is why distinguished minds have always shown such an extreme dislike to disturbance in any form, as something that breaks in upon and distracts their thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
