Sentence examples for extraneous thoughts from inspiring English sources

Nicotine has antidepressant effects and, for people with schizophrenia, helps dampen extraneous thoughts and voices, she and other experts said.

Some researchers hypothesize that the caudate is part of a subcortical circuit that acts as a kind of filter, sifting out extraneous thoughts and impulses.

For Watson, doing everything in his abilities to perform and then some entailed trusting his swing and playing instinctively rather than complicating the game by cluttering his mind with extraneous thoughts.

This is not a fact a reviewer should readily admit to, I know, particularly when talking about a book that is something of a page turner, but I think it is only fair to confess to the extraneous thoughts that kept buzzing around in my brain.

Extraneous thoughts arise and disperse.

When you're focused on these two things in tandem, there's little room left for extraneous thoughts.

"You don't want a lot of extraneous, negative thoughts to go through your mind.

Extraneous bad thought: were the whorls of toe prints unique, like those of fingerprints?

He didn't know how long he'd knelt on the grass having extraneous and postponable thoughts, but he feared that it was a lot more time than it had felt like.

At the time, I did not think about it much -- I was taking the bar, and then I was a first-year associate at a law firm pregnant with twins, so I didn't have time for many thoughts extraneous to immediate tasks at hand (topping the list: eating when I finally was able to and billing hours).

The constant movement of extraneous actors miming too many thoughts, the intrusive sounds of a violin, and a girl trio with nowhere to go continually interrupted and muffled rather than enhancing the theatricality of the playwright's script.