Sentence examples for brief distraction from inspiring English sources

This year it felt like a brief distraction from grubbier matters.

The Knicks were in the Garden ready to provide a brief distraction.

Neville finished Breeze off with a kick to the face and the Red Arrow, just seconds after The Miz yelled "cut" and provided a brief distraction.

She also spent those hours doing needlepoint — anything for a brief distraction — and the fruits of those nights are visible on her walls.

The Mizdow caused a brief distraction for The Miz to land the Skull-crushing Finale and win the match to keep up his winning momentum.

Studies show that following a brief distraction, people generate more creative solutions to a problem than those who spend the same period of time focusing on it intently.

Julie Schweitzer, director of the A.D.H.D. Program at the University of California, Davis, published a study in July finding that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who used Cogmed for 25 days were significantly better able to stay on task and to perform on a test of working memory — the ability to not just hold but to juggle items in the mind despite brief distractions.

With the public launch, clips get their own section (Videos), ordered by when you added them, so they're ready for when you want some brief distractions.

Where do they live?" Personally, in my teenage years, games were primarily playthings, brief distractions from college essay writing and driving lessons, alternatives to an evening sucking on a bottle in a nearby park with pals when money was tight.

My parents were always like, 'Let's be realistic.'" A series of brief distractions from the movie biz followed: in high school, he became "obsessed" with working out before a serious shoulder tear sidelined him from physical activity for a spell; eventually, he ended up at Texas State University as a freshman business major.

It's a brief but pleasant distraction, which easily makes it the most necessary thing on this list.