Get to know Distraction better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like confusion or revision.
Distraction meaning
- Something that distracts.
- The process of being distracted.
- Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
Synonyms of Distraction
Using Distraction
- The main meaning on this page is: Something that distracts. | The process of being distracted. | Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
- Useful related words include: confusion, revision, misdirection, amusement.
- In the example corpus, distraction often appears in combinations such as: distraction from, the distraction, distraction for.
Context around Distraction
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Distraction
- In this selection, "distraction" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jey, brief, huge, preventing, yeah and lets stand out and add context to how "distraction" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brief distraction for abe and a clean distraction free interface. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "distraction" sits close to words such as buckingham, calculate and curse, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with distraction
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But the case is likely to become a huge distraction amid his campaign. (13 words)
Cue Ari Daivari and company for a distraction and La Faccion is out. (13 words)
As soon as the birds showed any signs of distraction or discomfort, the calls were stopped. (16 words)
Then-Patriots defensive coordinator (and now head coach) Bill Belichick is quoted as saying Parcells' plans to leave for the Jets were a distraction, "Yeah, I'd say it was a little bit of a distraction all the way around. (40 words)
By throwing the torch into the smoke, it will cause a giant explosion which can either take out multiple targets from the shadows or simply create a noisy distraction to make sneaking around a little easier and far less risky. (40 words)
Trump, for all his drama, isn’t a distraction from what the G.O.P. is; in many ways, he the G.O.P. And the various cases against Trump aren’t a distraction preventing people from assessing him. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Trump, for all his drama, isn’t a distraction from what the G.O.P. is; in many ways, he the G.O.P. And the various cases against Trump aren’t a distraction preventing people from assessing him.
Then-Patriots defensive coordinator (and now head coach) Bill Belichick is quoted as saying Parcells' plans to leave for the Jets were a distraction, "Yeah, I'd say it was a little bit of a distraction all the way around.
Across town, Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton) will do his best to provide a distraction – most likely in an attempt to keep Elizabeth Baldwin (Rebecca Herbst) from confessing to the police.
Acting was sort of my savior, my relief, and my distraction from what was going on in my own brain,” she added.
A moment’s distraction can be fatal, and so the helmet’s UI had to be minimal.
An early Jey distraction lets Jimmy take over but Owens and Zayn fake a chair shot, earning Jey an ejection.
As Delirious tried to finish with a submission, there was a distraction on the apron by a Bomaye international representative.
As his scandal-plagued premiership unravelled, Johnson was accused of using trips to Ukraine or phone calls with Zelenskyy as a distraction for crises at home.
As I'm sure Saints fans have heard far too often, NFL Films' Hard Knocks can absolutely be a distraction to teams looking to prepare themselves for the rigors of an NFL season.
A special Juneteenth celebration brings all of Salem together and provides a brief distraction for Abe’s loved ones.
As soon as the birds showed any signs of distraction or discomfort, the calls were stopped.
But he was also the guy who called out Patrick Cantlay’s caddie, Joe LaCava, on the 18th green for being a distraction.
But the case is likely to become a huge distraction amid his campaign.
By throwing the torch into the smoke, it will cause a giant explosion which can either take out multiple targets from the shadows or simply create a noisy distraction to make sneaking around a little easier and far less risky.
CCS technologies have been seen by many climate scientists and experts as a distraction, and one championed by the oil industry to keep its operations going.
Charlotte Flair was at ringside and did play into the action, laying out Bayley at ringside causing a distraction.
Christmas in our modern world is busy — usually with many good things — but sometimes even good things can be a distraction from the simplicity of the birth of the world’s most famous baby.
Combining a clean, distraction-free interface with loads of great organization tools — like the ability to break your work into scenes or chapters and find them again later — makes one of the best free writing tools on the market.
Cue Ari Daivari and company for a distraction and La Faccion is out.
Cue some men in masks to jump the Profits though, with the distraction letting Escobar grab a rollup for the pin at 8:19.
Common combinations with distraction
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- distraction from 35×
- the distraction 23×
- distraction for 17×
- as distraction 16×
- distraction and 15×
- distraction to 12×
- distraction of 10×
- of distraction 9×
- distraction that 7×
- be distraction 7×