distractor

Example Sentences

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If your chosen distractor keeps you awake, try something else.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

“The bees would sooner or later try out the distractor flowers and realize that they’re equally as rewarding.”

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2021

Sure enough, Arnold’s group approached and took down the distractor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2020

In the car, it is a navigator, a radio, a nagging distractor and a ready accessory to manslaughter; at work, it is both a vigilant assistant and an eager fellow shirker.

From New York Times • May 16, 2018

At length Williams was banished as a distractor of the public peace, but a popular uproar attended his departure, and the greater part of the inhabitants were with difficulty dissuaded from following him.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George