Sentence examples for rather distracted from inspiring English sources

Julia Donaldson is a well-preserved 61 years old, but has about her a rather distracted air.

Same could be said of labor negotiations in New York City, where the mayor has been rather distracted lately.

It also makes a cameo appearance in the poor memory of a rather distracted fish (Ellen DeGeneres) in "Finding Nemo".

After Chancellor's voyage the Muscovy Company was formed, and a lucrative trade developed with Russia the success of which rather distracted the minds of the English from the Northeast Passage.

I will admit that once Steve Smith was out I became rather distracted trawling the wonderful archive at Trove, eventually coming across this Ray Robinson profile on Australian 'keeper Don Tallon.

Apologies for my lack of posts -- I have been rather distracted with pregnancy and the birth of my adorable little baby boy.

"It is not correct to go out and buy the child a toy, but rather distract him with something else.

So high is the level of quality that it rather distracts, with sheer pleasure, from the background history and the anthropology of Native American experience.

The sudden appearance of Tchenguiz Sr in the Selfridges saga is probably unwelcome to Robert for another reason: it recalls the exotic and rather distracting origins of his family's wealth.

An idiosyncratically curated bookstore tucked away (for now) on one of Tribeca's dingier blocks, Thirty Days is easy to miss even if you're looking for it (some of the the blame goes to Billy's Bakery, whose wafting aromas proved rather distracting to this hungry blogger).

The horrific realities get sod-all attention, because we can't face reality, we'd rather distract ourselves with anything – especially TV, sport, fashion, celebrities, electronic consumerables – anything, anything but the real world and the onerous empathy and insight required to engage with the true nature of the human condition".