She wanted to distract herself from the reality of death.

Do you want to distract me from holy work today?

Not in the Commons was the answer because, we were told, he didn't want to distract.

I just wanted to distract him and take a bad shot.

Walton did not want to distract himself or his new team before the game, however.

I didn't want her to distract me from my mother.

Whatever his people had just found, he didn't want to distract them.

Well, I thought, if that's how he wants to distract himself from his true calling, fine.

"I would not want it to distract from our city."

And he didn't want to distract anyone who was right in the middle of the melee either.