distractingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Rudd seems to have been told he’s in one, playing Rick’s humiliation so large that he looks unhinged, his face covered in cuts and bruises of his own doing that, distractingly, never seem to heal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The director, who like Mr. Coppola has cast a lead actor who isn’t conventionally handsome, has, also like Mr. Coppola, outfitted him with hair that is somewhere between entrancingly marvelous and distractingly ridiculous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The heist piece is straightforward, but at times the fallout distractingly jumbles the puzzle.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
Oddly, given how specific McCarten’s script is about the kind of period technology that Warhol uses when he films, the video the audience sees of them looks distractingly contemporary.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Light flickered around her, and her eyes were so distractingly beautiful I hardly noticed the stallion-sized sea horse she was riding.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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