She no longer distracted him with a touch from her hand or an arm on his shoulder.

We are distracted by a particularly violent piece of action on screen.

"A little something to distract a man on a quiet afternoon, perhaps?"

We were distracted by the last few minutes of a ball game on the wide-screen television.

I went on a bit, and looked over to see a small, distracted smile on his face.

"I think we'd all get distracted on these questions."

After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter.

Without thinking about it, he continued to help by distracting the trio on the swing.

But many a participant might have been distracted by private thoughts on a more pedestrian level, given the problems waiting at home.

When the phone rang, he picked it up, still distracted by the sight of Peter on his television screen.