distract somebody's attention

Yet she went to some effort to distract our attention away from him.

He was used, first to help me, then to distract your attention.

It was their job to distract the pretty young woman's attention.

There are so many things to distract one's attention along the way.

I'll talk to your mother on the beach and distract her attention.

And, of course, it might distract your attention from the fact that we no longer make things like this in America.

"But most meetings are just ways to distract attention from other, more difficult questions."

I try to distract everyone's attention away from any disaster.

Yet at the time they served to distract public attention from domestic problems.

They said doing so could distract attention from the problem of racism in the city.