distracted

lend a very distracted attention

distracted with grief

Luke looked momentarily distracted.

she was distracted by a commotion across the street.

My attentions are distracted from my study.

He was distracted between two objects.

The noise in the street distracted me from my reading.

He was distracted with an unhappy love affair.

The school students were distracted by the noise outside the classroom.

Charlotte seemed too distracted to give him much attention.

she ran her fingers through her hair in a distracted fashion.

I'm distracted by a nibble on my line: I jig it several times, but there is no responsive tug.

Noise outside distracted her mind from her studies.

Rawlsianism, though laudable in spirit, is too theoretical, and has distracted political philosophers from corrigible ills in the actual world.

Then, momentarily distracted, be dipped his brush into his coffee, and was just about to drink the tur pentine when he recognized his mistake.