Sentence examples for at distraction from inspiring English sources

The above activities might be interpreted, in part, as efforts at distraction from the tedium of TV Burp.

Even though Heidegger thought that technology was fundamentally aimed at distraction and self-avoidance, it doesn't have to be.

"This document release is nothing more than an attempt at distraction and misdirection by an individual who created and then purged an illegal private email server," he said.

Unfortunately, however, the move constitutes little more than an attempt at distraction, blocking off criticism of Tory housing policy – which will prove disastrous for the poor – with a paltry scheme aimed at generating headlines more than turning around lives.

Hungry for mercy, she too eagerly wove into his clumsy effort at distraction an identity he had not supplied, allowing it to be the truth, until time wore the deception out.

It means exercising patience, ignoring some of his verbal provocations (many of which are attempts at distraction), pointing out that his policies are hurting the very people he is claiming to represent, and, above all, committing to beating him and his allies politically.

He tensed his jaw in irritation at the distraction, then sniffed at the breeze to reaffirm a suspicion.

We aimed at starting distraction 5 days postoperatively at a distraction rate of 1.3 mm/day in femurs and starting 7 days postoperatively at 1.0 mm/day in tibias.

Reading a book or going for a walk is, at best, a distraction; at worst, it's a dereliction of duty.

And so for most smokers, e-cigarettes are "at best a distraction, and at worst something that is prolonging an epidemic," he says.

At the end of the day, look at your distraction habits.