Sentence examples for better distract from inspiring English sources

I tell him about the time I accidentally ended up topless on Page 3 of the Sunday Sport, because there was a demo in Trafalgar Square in aid of the striking Liverpool Dockers, and when some idiots threw bottles at the police horses I thought I'd better distract everyone by running in front of a wall of riot police with my tits out.

Servants or family members who question the old ways are co-opted by their betters, distracted by romantic diversions or written off the show.

Better to distract everyone with a surprise American treat.

Mr. Parker Smith shuffled through, making piles, three-card-Monte-style, the better to distract from whatever went missing.

How better to distract yourself from a shrinking bank account than with Linda Howard's "Burn," the tale of unlikely love between Jenner Redwine, a philanthropic lotto-winner and, Cael Traylor, a misanthropic Israeli spy? Set on a cruise ship?

The Better Move Distract them.

So Betty dyed her hair, the better to distract herself from the fact that she's slowly turning into Henry's waspish mother, Pauline Francis, right down to the dowdy hair and the dresses that look like they were made from upholstery fabric.

There is this kind of ambiguity of him not knowing why he's doing what he's doing, but he just needs some sort of release -- something to make him feel better and distract himself from what his actual reality is -- and this is what his body actually ends up coming up with.

Studies suggest it is better to distract yourself with just one thing rather than jumping from one thing to another trying to divert your attention from unwanted thoughts.

Regulation needs to be flexible and responsive; inflexible regulation makes things worse, not better, and distracts staff from time which they should be devoting to patient care.

Or is it just making us feel better by distracting us with a story about a scandal that ended badly for Nixon and his cronies?