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The food is never quite good enough to be a distraction.

He does not want his past to be a distraction.

The last thing I needed was a distraction up here.

Of course, a distraction would help, but nothing else came to mind.

He could have used the distraction from thinking about the market.

Try using distraction to help your child during a test.

Most of us are a lot better off without the distraction.

Workers cannot remember what they were doing before the distraction.

A new wife for the king was a good distraction.

And then, for the cost of a small distraction, you would no longer be at risk.

The distraction was enough to make him remember to give the young man room to find himself.

And God knew, distraction had been hard enough to come by during the last week.

Which was good, because the general needed some time for himself, free of distraction.

Yes they are a distraction, but no more so now than 20 to 30 years ago.

What I really need is a good distraction, she decided.

But all he needed to do was cause a distraction.

She was ready to move and this seemed a distraction.

The girl beyond him was a distraction, but not that much.

You'll need a little distraction down here, if I know you.

A long way to come just to drive her to distraction.

Actually, I was looking forward to the distraction of work.

Given the distraction of the war, the play was not well received.

This is a distraction, to make us look the wrong way.

I tried to tell them that he would not have wanted to be a distraction.

She needed the distraction, something to take her mind off herself for a while.