Sentence examples for distract without from inspiring English sources

It was a disco ball of discord, rolled in to distract, without illuminating.

Furthermore, there is an italicised ghost voice running through the text which yearns for both commemoration and closure but distracts without contributing anything significant; the story would be leaner and less sentimental without it.

In such situations, what the sleep-challenged need is not sheer boredom, a state slipped passively into, but the scantest grasp of mild amusement, from something that is distracting without being stimulating.

Surely he could have come up with a better way to distract them without tossing his life away?

A hanging coat created just enough curtained privacy to define a space where I could work without being distracted and without looking like I was erecting a wall to keep my coworkers out.

Luckily, the food distracted me, without it quite hitting a resonant high note.

Ability to multi-task: manages multiple tasks at one time; quickly and accurately shifts attention among multiple tasks under distracting conditions without loss of accuracy or signs of frustration.

It's pretty distracting, even without having an actual guitar.

Would R&B still sound as bare, distracted, and without soul as it sounds now?

Support from the infant's father was perceived by most mothers as a help to distract the infant, without direct involvement in care.

THEY pop up without warning, distract attention and clog computers.