DISTRACTION in a Sentence

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He profited by this distraction to slip away among the crowd, without even thanking the worthy priests who accompanied him.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRACTION
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distraction
 n.  extreme mental or emotional disturbance; obsession; confusion of affairs; being drawn apart
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
2  The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  I loved her at that minute to distraction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4  I should always love her, every minute, to distraction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
5  that I would not intrude upon his kindness, were I in any other position than on the confines of distraction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
6  On the contrary, he needed occupation and distraction quite apart from his love, so as to recruit and rest himself from the violent emotions that agitated him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
7  He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The night was one of feverish distraction, and in its progress visions good and evil passed through Dantes' mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
9  He profited by this distraction to slip away among the crowd, without even thanking the worthy priests who accompanied him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
10  I saw then that we were descending a large staircase; around us were all my mother's servants carrying trunks, bags, ornaments, jewels, purses of gold, with which they were hurrying away in the greatest distraction.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
11  That was enough to drive a man to distraction, but it had its charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  You bore me to distraction, said Scarlett coldly, hoping to annoy him and divert him from the ever- unfortunate subject of Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
14  Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
15  Day came, and she was transformed again into a grand lady; again she went out, laughed, chattered, and simply flung herself headlong into anything which could afford her the slightest distraction.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  He drives me to distraction, I have to take a break.
2  A very clingy child can drive a parent to distraction.
3  Try not to be distracted by incidental details.
4  He's easily distracted from his work.
5  Gill seems rather distracted at the moment - I think she's worried about her exams.
6  Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.
7  The noise in the street distracted me from my reading.
8  My attentions are distracted from my study.
9  His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
10  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.
11  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.
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.