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How to use distracted in a sentence

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I understand how distracted a woman can be with a virile man waiting at home for her.
I called out a greeting but was distracted by the volleyball again before I got to say anything else.
And indeed, the sound of skin squeaking against glass distracted Mark from his melancholy for a moment.
Eventually, the tone stabilizes, and, by the second half, the power of the story will envelop all but the most distracted viewers.
It is better to focus our attention on that now than to be distracted by anything else.
The woman let them in, but luckily a male friend called in and distracted the men and they fled empty handed.
When the tournament is held before the season, not in the middle of it, players aren't tired, nursing injuries or distracted by their seasons.
It was meant to keep the kids distracted while the parents got quietly hammered on long island iced tea.
I am distracted from further conversation by an expanding exchange on MSN Messenger.
She grinned lightly, and made a hand signal to a man in the back while Dave was distracted.
She's also more easily distracted, so multitasking requires extra mental effort.
The intentionally boxy, stilted animation is arresting at first, until one is distracted by the content of the show itself.
Every time one of these virus stories hits, people get distracted and I get fewer and fewer pieces of hate mail.
We go up and do our training, get it over and done with, and try not to be distracted by what people are saying about the match.
Beth's husband Kevin, a charismatic history teacher, emerges as a stoic, entirely but mutely aware of his wife's distracted love.
My thoughts were soon distracted, however, when I found an onsen off the road.
His stout defence distracted the Austrians, helping Bonaparte to invade northern Italy and beat them at Marengo.
I looked straight at my screen all day, but was distracted by a faint sniff sniff sniff coming from a nearby desk.
He was distracted from his blindness, he says, by the deluge of mental and physical challenges coming his way.
It disturbed the agenda, and patients seemed to be distracted from the subject that made them seek health care in the first place.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Asmonean royalty, nevertheless, was always distracted by profound interior vices.
He found his mind that morning distracted by thoughts of both Climene and aline.
By this time the children were gorged with food and distracted by many presents.
The native hue of spiritual resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of distracted, wavering, confused thought.
The clangor distracted the attention of the assailants, and a parley ensued.
She followed poor Renard, who was seeking an outlet, distracted as he was by his pursuers.
They are not distracted with the fear of evils to come nor the hopes of future good.
Under all roofs of this distracted City is the nodus of a Drama, not untragical, crowding toward solution.
Wales continues in a distracted state, and acts of incendiarism are common.
Or who in such straits, would permit themselves to be distracted either by Hypocrisy or inconsiderateness?
When Charles, distracted by the news of the distraint, returned home, Emma had just gone out.
The whole school had gone distracted, but the pilferer was too clever to be caught.
The military force was not to be increased, and Sidney was expected to heal the distracted land with 882 soldiers and 300 kerne.
Each father and mother was distracted when news of the flooding of Lockport came.
Afterwards he was distracted by a traction engine going through the town, and his aunt had got some sprats for supper.
It is well known, that theatrical parties distracted the Roman citizens, and rose almost to phrensy.
He had been distracted with face-ache all night, he said, which caused him to rise late.
Not even the does and kangaroos that adorn the Park distracted or detained him?
The distracted man trembled from head to foot, partly from cold, partly from the struggle in which he was engaged.
Mimicked alarm calls of the babblers or of another bird distracted the babblers for longer than plain drongo alarms.
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