Sentence examples for distracted immediately from inspiring English sources

The 1989 comedy When Harry Met Sally has this memorable exchange at a New Year's party when Billy Crystal's Harry gets distracted immediately after declaring his love for Meg Ryan's Sally.

I squeaked a congested breath through my nostrils and began immediately distracting myself.

Deborah thinks that repetition has slightly dulled the very real pain that goes with this agonized but stereotyped complaint, but when he says such things she will distract him immediately.

In order to distract yourself immediately, think of plans and ideas for how you can fix the situation when you feel better.

Chamberlain was immediately distracted during warm-ups, twitching and shaking his head, trying in vain to scare off the pests.

He looked up at me and smiled in a way that immediately distracted me from thoughts of how miserable I felt.

He sat down and opened the book and was immediately distracted by a lizard flickering in and out of an empty flowerpot.

But when the therapist became momentarily distracted, Kristie reverted immediately to her own language of bings and beeps, squeals and screeches and to her private, special world.

I am immediately distracted by a woman in a white puffer jacket embellished with weed symbols and a backpack in the same hue with a tiger's head on it.

******* I tuned into the swimming heats this morning hoping to see some freakishly improved times, but was immediately distracted, then mesmerised, by the microphone on Clare Balding's headset.

Initially intending a career as a teacher, he received a master's from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1932, but was almost immediately distracted by the Depression, his populist leanings and the experience of hobnobbing with radical socialists in Greenwich Village coffeehouses.