distracted

IPA: dɪstrˈæktʌd

Examples of "distracted" in Sentences

His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
A note on style – the parenthetical asides sprinkled throughout distracted from the story.
I was distracted from the article by the stool, then distracted from the stool by Natalie Goldberg.
I'm not sure keeping yourself distracted is going to get you to the point where you forget the fact that are not actually ingesting caffeine.
And last night I got distracted from the baseball by some good books from the library (something is wrong with me), including the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
"It's not a coincidence," Gallagher points out, "that the term distracted once referred not just to a loss or dilution of attention but also to confusion, mental imbalance, and even madness."
He smiled wide while reaching to his waist, and his expression distracted Chekov just long enough that he didn’t see the disruptor until the Prastorian had fired it at him, point blank, right into his chest.