The hermit's ravings made a perfect distraction, especially understaffed as we are.

Even the least ambitious examples in Japan demonstrate how a trickle of water into a tiny tank can prove a perfect distraction.

Eager for diversion, she looked at herself in her hand mirror and discovered the perfect distraction: a zit!

Mr. Livson said the inexplicable behavior of penguins was a perfect distraction from the human equivalent.

His first broadcasts were at university, the perfect distraction from his Honours degree in Law.

Although the war in Iraq creates the perfect distraction, there have been no moves to impose direct Kremlin rule on the republic.

Suddenly, he was the perfect distraction.

A stroll along the Promenade balcony would be a perfect distraction.

He was the perfect distraction from her buried sorrows, making her present aberrations seem minor stuff beside his own.

This provides the perfect distraction for our killer to doctor Reed's champagne.