• The act of smoking, and the smoke auterizing his throat, appeared to distract him.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

  • Unless he stops this very strange almost obsession, teams will learn how to distract him.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • When Ms. Brickman tried to distract him with questions and a gentle touch, his anxiety turned to self-loathing.

    WSJ: For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War

  • That includes the few dozen or so behind the basket trying to distract him with wildly waving arms.

    FORBES: Make Some Noise

  • Mr Berlusconi, who is reportedly spending a lot of time at the firm, will have plenty to distract him from Mediaset's comely presenters.

    ECONOMIST: Mediaset

  • Montgomery is clearly relishing his return to the international fold, but it will not distract him from fixed targets with the Newport Gwent Dragons.

    BBC: I felt more relaxed in myself in Wales

  • The question is, is there any concern within the administration that this may distract him from his other domestic priorities such as jobs, economic recovery, and health care?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said that when the lion attacked, another employee at the sanctuary tried to distract him away from Hanson and move him into another enclosure.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Mr. Murthy denied wrongdoing and said he chose to participate in a settlement to ensure the issue didn't distract him from his job at iGate, a subsidiary of which he had joined in 2003.

    WSJ: Outsourcer Fires Indian CEO Over Relationship

  • Our hero contemplates himself in the hallway mirror or waters the plants or engages in other some other anodyne activity which serves merely to distract him from doing what he claims he wants to do.

    ECONOMIST: Fiction from France

  • Baxter is Bafana Bafana's eleventh coach in a decade but he said that he will not allow the South African Football Association's (Safa) high turnover of managers to distract him from his immediate task of restoring the country's football reputation.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | African | SA coach ready for challenge

  • Superseding these and many other recollections of Kennedy the senator is my vivid memory of him as a person uniquely able to distract and comfort others in distress.

    CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy

  • For Giuliani, focussing on the differences between him and the Democrats has also served to distract attention from the differences between himself and the Republican base.

    NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

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