Sentence examples for distract that from inspiring English sources

The same guilt that might mobilise a minority to activism has been co-opted and used as a marketing tool to distract that same minority with easy acts of consumption.

It represents a balance between being hyper- alert and thereby too responsive to a stimulus, which could distract that individual from detecting other significant stimuli, and being hypo-alert and too unresponsive and possibly failing to detect a change in the present stimulus.

(One might also have added, but we have not in the ms as it would distract, that similar issues apply to the 'reversibility' of enzymes and of biochemical pathways (gluconeogenesis is not mechanistically a reversal of glycolysis, even if the "start" and "end" states are the same molecules).

You might suggest to the person you wish to distract that you go and look at the broken dishwasher, or the new piece of artwork, take a look at the garden, or the view from your bedroom window etc. Choose anything that fits in with their personality and the context.

"Imagine how distracting that would be on the side of a bus or building," the insider laughs.

Gore was distracted that day, probably hungover.

"Overentertained and distracted — that's right," Mr. Harkin said.

"And if he's on base, he distracts that pitcher.

He later left the British so distracted that they never fully focused on the American war.

The whirling blades of your sister's helicopter parenting will be less distracting that way.

Unless, of course, the cashier is so distracted that you overpay for your merchandise.