Sentence examples for distract himself with from inspiring English sources
Once tipoff arrives, he does not distract himself with silly poses or sideline dances, or gestures to the crowd, as he did in Cleveland.
As he spent hours in the batting cage working with the hitting coach Howard Johnson on pitch recognition and timing, Delgado tried to distract himself with other interests.
But in an inspired twist, Michael can't help fretting about Ben, imagining what his lover is and isn't doing while he tries to distract himself with chores around the house.
When Bloom deals with short stories, he relies on plot summary and platitudes -- Chekhov is "the indispensable artist of the unlived life" -- and yet nevertheless finds time, in just over five pages on the Russian master, to mention Shakespeare 11 times and to distract himself with a comparison between Balzac and Dickens.
Madeleine Albright visited with Kim Jong Il -- and Bill Clinton came remarkably close to visiting North Korea as the closing act of his tenure in office -- choosing instead to distract himself with another failed act in Israel-Palestine peacemaking.
By day he would write, often after a night amidst the cat-filled alleys, dinners at Gage and Tollner or Joes, or he would distract himself with buying trips to Knapp's emporium for the paperweights and knick knacks he so admired.
Citrine distracts himself with reflections on ape behaviour while Cantabile "crouched there with his hardened dagger brows".
So he strolled through the palace of make-believe, distracting himself with stuffed animals and roller skates.
(Kendall's previous book, "The Man Who Made Lists," was a biography of Peter Mark Roget, another depressive who distracted himself with obsessive organizing).
He got to Dan and Darci's house, complained a little about a sore leg and distracted himself with four grandchildren.
Unable to square his identity as a Chinese-American, as a man, and as a friend, he distracts himself with a staggering compendium of self-belittling racist jokes.
