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
• There are so many distractions there and these poor kids have to deal with it.
  — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2023
• Wait for your most creative time of the day, and turn off any distractions.
  — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• The adults thought a trick-or-treating trip would be a good distraction.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
• The toys are a distraction, Roberts said, and help put kids at ease before surgery.
  — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
• Outside of the library of distractions, there’s the main game mode.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
• Smith becomes a major distraction to the Ravens over the next 10 weeks.
  — Dan Wiederer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2022
• Every distraction takes you [away from the] focus and the process.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• You’re invited to slow down amid all the distractions of the day and focus on one thing.
  — Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• With plenty still to do between now and then, the last thing Freeze wants is a distraction.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 2 Feb. 2023
• And that’s a nice way to work, having the independence and the lack of distractions in the studio.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
• But will this new flame become a distraction to his work?
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
• The very act of climbing this mountain was a distraction.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• Despite all the off-field distractions, Travis has kept his play on the field going strong.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
• What’s the best way to manage distractions while studying for the CPA exam?
  — Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The cost-cutting shift was welcomed by some who saw the floats as a distraction and dismissed by those who loved the pageantry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes a visual can be a distraction from the quality of the voice and the music.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
• Fresh off a breakup at the time, weight training offered a welcome distraction and the prospect of a revenge body.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 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
• Questions of craft must have been seen as a mere distraction from the message of Reagan.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
• All of which served as excellent distractions from the dumpster fire that is life on Earth in 2023.
  — Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
• As many as 3,000 men at a time lived here, and for men in pain of one kind or another, worldly distractions beckoned — not just cigars and magazines, but fleshly delights.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• Coined as far back as 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, the idea of mental deterioration from trivial distractions has never been more relevant.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024