distracting

Example Sentences

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For $60, the device connects to an app that blocks distracting apps on a user’s phone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

You can’t squint past the distracting lens flares.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

They have what few candidates get: the opportunity to be unhinged and distracting in the opposite direction of someone like RFK Jr.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

These artists from Chicago’s South Side were picked to tackle a potentially distracting spot: A basketball gym.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

He found the stricken rider distracting himself from his pain by firing off aphorisms from Ralph Waldo Emerson—“Old Waldo”—at the nurses.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand