DISTRACTED in a Sentence

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129 example sentences for DISTRACTED, such as:

1. He's easily distracted from his work.
2. My attentions are distracted from my study.
3. Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
4. Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
5. He drives me to distraction, I have to take a break.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRACTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distracted
 a.  having the attention diverted; suffering conflicting emotions; distraught
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  Like quicksilver sliding, filings magnetized, the distracted united.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  Then again, as the play or pageant proceeded, my attention was distracted.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
3  In the first instant of alighting, Mrs. Sparsit turned her distracted eyes towards the waiting coaches, which were in great request.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
4  With her attention not a little distracted by these and a great many other incoherent exclamations of joy, Rose read the address, which was Craven Street, in the Strand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  The horror-stricken witness of this scene pressed his hands upon his ears, and with his eyes closed got up and paced violently to and fro, like one distracted.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
6  Owing to her baby, who somewhat impeded Thomasin's view forward and distracted her mind, she did at last lose the track.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
7  I saw Holmes put his hand to his forehead like a man distracted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
8  He was unable, however, to make his way in, and the maids were too distracted with fear to be of any assistance to him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
9  My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
10  It distracted her from her thoughts and she was very anxious to arrange both her thoughts and her face in attractive lines before reaching Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The stopping of the train at Garrisons would not have distracted her from these thoughts, had she not caught a sudden look of distress in her companion's eye.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  She pointed up to the sky, then to my eyes, then back to the sky, with movements so quick and impulsive that she distracted me, and I had no idea what she wanted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
15  Grandmother noticed that she seemed troubled and distracted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
2  He's easily distracted from his work.
3  Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
4  Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
5  The noise in the street distracted me from my reading.
6  My attentions are distracted from my study.
7  His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
8  The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
9  All provinces have some sort of distracted driving-cellphone legislation in place, most banning texting or talking on the phone using a hand-held device, and levying fines if caught.
10  He drives me to distraction, I have to take a break.
11  A very clingy child can drive a parent to distraction.
12  No need to distract from the center ring of this circus.
13  Despite his desire to achieve nirvana, the young Buddhist found that even the buzzing of a fly could distract him from his meditation.
14  Despite Clark's attempts to distract her with tangential remarks, Lois kept on coming back to her main question: why couldn't he come out to dinner with Superman and her?.
15  She jabbered away, trying to distract his attention.