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Sentences ending with distracted

Then she fled homeward as quickly as she could, torn and bleeding from the wounds of thorns and briars, but more lacerated in mind, and threw herself upon her bed, distracted. [12]
The mother is distracted. [9]
The doctor was distracted. [10]
And toward the close of the day for which they had volunteered they became distracted. [9]

Short sentences using distracted

This distracted him. [11]

More example sentences with the word distracted in them

It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
Ah, if he would only have patience, or if she could keep him distracted through this winter and their night, she might save him. [9]
He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident. [2]
Presently these thoughts were distracted by the sight of a back strangely familiar. [9]
Of course we were all distracted in a moment--everybody was flying everywhere, and nobody doing anything worth anything. [5]
If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
The storekeeper's attention was next distracted by the sight of one who wandered slowly but ceaselessly from group to group, kicking up his heels behind, and halting always in the rear of the speakers. [9]
The public mind was alarmed and apprehensive, though fortunately not distracted or disheartened. [7]
It is a very bad thing for the memory and the judgment to get into a habit of reading carelessly or listening with distracted attention. [4]
Her father--for Dudley Venner was her father--looked like a man of culture and breeding, but melancholy and with a distracted air, as one whose life had met some fatal cross or blight. [6]
She had completely upset his life, increasingly distracted his mind until now he could imagine no peace unless he possessed her. [9]
A distracted father tries to break through the ranks and rescue his son. [9]
She herself strove to uplift her soul in prayer to the manes of her lost mother; but the scene going on around her in the vestibule distracted her mind with horror. [10]
At the same time, they considered that friend David's mind was distracted by the things of this world, and they reasoned with the Lord in prayer upon the point in David's presence. [11]
During the next three years he was distracted by the financial struggle which ended in April, 1894, with the failure of Charles L. Webster & Co. Mark Twain now found himself bankrupt, and nearly one hundred thousand dollars in debt. [5]
Presently, however, her thoughts were distracted by the sight of something moving rapidly across her line of vision. [9]
From Beaver Creek they began to fight the war over again, backward and forward, much to Cynthia's edification, when her attention was distracted by the entrance of a street band of wind instruments. [9]
Reporters had been there, Republican Headquarters had telephoned to know if I were ill. Leaving word that I was not to be disturbed under any circumstances, I went to my room, and spent most of the night in distracted thought. [9]
Ten minutes later Theodore and I arrived opposite the house, with the servants straggling after us, and shouted to the distracted group on the porch, "Everybody safe! [5]
At this point their attention was distracted by a noise that bore a striking resemblance to a suppressed laugh. [9]
She rushed to the window in mortal fear, and looked down into the palace-yard; at that same instant the door of the great banqueting-hall was flung open, and a flying crowd streamed out in distracted confusion--then another, and a third--all troops in King Philometor's uniform. [10]
Distracted, she blamed the fate which had made this man an enemy. [9]
It was at that moment the Young Doctor entered the room, and he distracted Mona's attention for a moment. [11]
You have kindly suggested to me that in my hands is the task of restoring peace to the present distracted condition of the country. [7]
In this distracted state of the land, the frontiers had garrisons among the mountains, some of which held for the emperor, some for the prince, and some for the Turk. [4]
Thousands flocked to see the corpse, and among them Balbilla, who had behaved like a distracted creature when she heard to what an end her idol had come. [10]
If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are might reasonably have apprehended. [7]
That weltering chaos of distracted men whirled and surged backward like a tidal wave which has struck a continent, and the day was ours! [5]
I was driven nearly distracted by his long account of Mr. Howells and his wanderings. [5]
When her adoptive mother had discovered how often she looked out into the street she thought she had found out the reason of her pupil's distracted attention and only waited the return of her brother, the architect, in order to have the window blocked up. [10]
And here I may remark that in every short address I have made to the people, in every crowd through which I have passed of late, some allusion has been made to the present distracted condition of the country. [7]
When she and Martina returned home she looked so cast down and distracted that no stranger now would ever have dreamed of comparing her with a brisk little bird. [10]
It hurt a little, but the worst of it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had been looking at. [2]
So while I knew we must go, I was distracted over how to go and what to do. [13]
Discussions in all keys were in progress, and it, was with vast difficulty that our distracted young man pushed through and found the landlord, This personage was the coolest of the lot. [9]
I explained that it would go by steam, and he began unscrewing the cap on the little boiler until he was distracted by the man-of-war, and with natural acquisitiveness started to take possession of that. [9]
He might drag it in, but he was aware that with her mind distracted by more immediate interests he could not get from her that judgment, that reasoned divination, which he relied upon so much. [8]
The rain descended in floods on the distracted city, and the great river rose and flung brush from Minnesota forests high up on the stones of the levee. [9]
My thoughts were, however, distracted by our vessel signalling the other. [11]
Without it the housekeepers are as distracted as the boarding-house keeper, who declared that if it were not for canned tomato, she should have nothing to fly to. [4]
She stared at him, unable to say a word, and the distracted look in her face did not lessen. [11]
She raised her head and looked straight into his dark, distracted eyes. [11]
She felt that he was acting bravely and nobly, and that he was lost if even for an instant his attention were distracted from his perilous footing. [10]
Not finding what he had left there, he returned with distracted looks to the room in which they were assembled. [12]
The distracted gaze had gone from her eyes, and she listened without a tremor to the voices of the wailers behind. [11]
After he had gone, the Queen and Iras looked over the plans for the tomb brought by Gorgias, but the intense agitation of her soul distracted Cleopatra's attention, and she begged him to come again at a later hour. [10]
She was going from closet to bureau, opening this door and shutting that in her sitting-room and bedroom, in an aimless, distracted way. [4]
The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him. [2]
Yet when he first waked, it was not in his mind--only that confusion out of which he had passed to nothingness with the vision of the distracted springboks. [11]
Ditmar's aplomb, his faculty of getting what he wanted, had amused and distracted her. [9]
She--" With a distracted gesture Byng interrupted. [11]
I was soon distracted from these thoughts by the sight of Harrodstown itself. [9]
Clatter of hoofs distracted Fay and interrupted the scolding she was gleefully receiving from Jane. [13]
Pierre saw the distracted count, and Sonya, who had a tear-stained face, but he could not see Natasha. [2]
He exorcised the demon which possessed the body politic, and gave peace to a distracted land. [7]
For, as a company of soldiers from Grouville, alarmed out of sleep by a distracted youth, hurried towards St. Heliers, they found Delagarde lying by the roadside, and they misunderstood what had happened. [11]
She has recently come into an open place, and she is distracted by the many opportunities. [4]
My old nurse cared for me tenderly day and night, and my father, who had been almost distracted in the first hours which followed the injury, hoped and believed that no permanent evil results would be found to result from it. [6]
She strove to calm herself by prayer: but the glances of a congregation focussed between her shoulder-blades seemed to burn her back, and the thought of the concentration of so many minds upon her distracted her own. [9]
Presently he got back into the main drive where it clung to a steep, forest-covered side hill, when his attention was distracted by the sight of a straight figure in white descending amidst the foliage ahead. [9]
Yet at this auction-sale he looked a distracted, if smiling, whimsical, rather bustling figure of misfortune, with a tragic air of exile, of isolation from all by which he was surrounded. [11]
Some thoughts such as these distracted her. [9]
Nevertheless, as soon as he saw his friend in peril, he rushed to the rescue, and by screams and bites so distracted the baboon that the man was able to escape, after, as the surgeon thought, running great risk of his life. [1]
But they are apparently immensely interested as well as distracted by them. [8]
He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. [2]
The Spanish invasion and the Armada distracted the attention of Europe about this time, and the hope of plunder from Spanish vessels was more attractive than the colonization of America. [4]
I paced up and down, sick and distracted, for half an hour or more. [11]
Time and intrigue and conspiracy had distracted his mind, and the Jehad became the fixed aim and end of his life. [11]
Janet had taken advantage of the opportunity to file away some answered letters when her attention was distracted from her work by the conversation, which had gradually grown louder. [9]
But I know Aarsu the Syrian, and if I see aright, the time will come when he will himself strive, in distracted Egypt, rent by internal disturbances, for the power which, through his mercenaries, he aided others to grasp. [10]
And at such a time Washington ought to have been a rapt and enthusiastic listener, but he was not, for two matters disturbed his mind and distracted his attention. [5]
Will you quit a father's house with this debased wretch, without a place to lay his distracted head; going up and down the country, with every novel object that many chance to wander through this region. [5]

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