distracting

Example Sentences

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One of the others is the Brick, that little piece of plastic that has exactly one job—to make my phone stop working in distracting ways—and executes it to perfection.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026

And I think mostly that’s because I don’t have this other side of stuff that is distracting me from anything.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The problem, as Babb explained, was that Gamble had posed a danger to drivers by being so visibly distracting.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

This is where Howe has previously come into his own, and Hopkinson maintained "we are not distracting ourselves with speculation about what we may or may not do in the summer".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Why was a TV distracting when Finn and Tyrell screaming at the top of their lungs wasn’t?

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix