Why distract our attention by bothering with them, when we can argue directly with the whites?

The policeman looked at him, his attention totally distracted from Chiun.

No 7-year-old will have to sit in class without eating all day, his attention wholly distracted from learning by his hungry belly.

"Somewhere below," Jamie said, his attention distracted by a man coming down the wharf toward us.

I ceased listening, my attention distracted by a stealthy movement on the shelf above his head.

Now the thugs turned, confused, their attention distracted from the youth they had cornered.

She lost it for a moment, her attention distracted, something in the bushes behind her.

Arit said, her own attention now clearly distracted from her sparring with Picard.

With any luck at all, Parkening would be made much of, and the attention would distract him from making the lives of others miserable.

His attention momentarily distracted, his silent opponent glided away.