You'll need a little distraction down here, if I know you.
Still, he needed a distraction now, with her getting ready for bed only a few yards away.
She needed a second distraction, but this one was easier to come by.
"And to gain time, we need a distraction for these things."
They needed a distraction so she switched over to Bill.
Needing a distraction, he went into the living room and turned on the television.
She was home taking care of her young children in the late 1960's, writing a dissertation, and needed a distraction.
She wondered occasionally why his mind needed so much distraction.
To stop himself from going insane, he needed a distraction and became the judge of the competition.
"After trying to save the world from war and holocaust I need a distraction," she said.