Sentence examples for distracting sounds from inspiring English sources

But a much lower apartment on a residential street somewhere else in Manhattan might be free of distracting sounds.

Dogs are able to register sounds of 35,000 vibrations per second (compared with 20,000 per second in humans), and they also can shut off their inner ear in order to filter out distracting sounds.

For instance, distracting sounds in the office, such as a computer or printer beeping, and loud conversations, can negatively affect a person's mood and make it difficult for them to concentrate, causing stress.

Michael took part in two different experiments: one designed to look at his response to emotional images and one to test how much attention he paid to distracting sounds.

He told me that was because we made all those distracting sounds part of his active listening experience.

For this task, the child is asked to remain still with their eyes closed for 75 seconds and inhibit impulses to respond to distracting sounds.

Mostly I grimaced, gestured weirdly and made the occasional distracting sound.

The primary function is to reduce sidetone, which is the distracting sound of the speaker's own voice coming through the receiver from the transmitter.

… He moves on to my ears, a kiss that makes my nipples stand erect, and me emit little moans that drown out to my own ears the loud, distracting sound of Cumberbatch swiping dock leaves and tearing nettles and long grasses very close to the rickety stoop.

If there's a lot of noise outside, it can be helpful to use a TV or radio to create a low level of distracting sound.

Legs crippled by polio did not prevent FDR from being a great leader, but drugs that may affect mood and clarity of thought, and pain that had to be distracting, sound risky, especially at a summit meeting.