Nothing to distract his mind from them or give him something, anything to cling to.

And the others help me to distract my mind from what I see.

At length, having thought over every possible evil which could happen, the princess tried to distract her mind by playing with the little dog.

"I distract my mind from the pressure," said Robinson, who finished with 11 points.

Elizabeth's entire staff focused on distracting her mind from what she had lost by going out into the garden in the middle of the night.

Then, as if to distract my mind, he pushed an open letter across to me.

A pretty woman, still quite young, does somehow distract a man's mind from his troubles more effectively than most things would.

To distract his mind from the pain, he read the screen.

It distracted his mind from dwelling on what had happened to Yellowstone.

Her visit was a lucky coincidence, since it distracted your mind from the real object of my questions.