How To Use distrait In A Sentence
- “Sure, son, sure,” Jack answered with a distrait tone. Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
- Her Kitchen Essays appeared first in the Times, and have what Nicola Humble accurately calls a "slightly distrait charm" (what on earth to do when cook is away?). Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes
- Auntie became excessively pale, and was sometimes quite "distrait" and bewildered-looking, which was little wonder, considering all she had to do and arrange. The Laurel Bush
- Although her journey into madness is somewhat short-circuited, Rachel Pickup is also a frighteningly distrait Ophelia.
- He still looks somewhat distrait, however, and retains that wild look in his eyes which in a Highlander would mean that he was "fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens. The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales
- But, as someone about to construct a bomb might appear distrait anyway, the judgment was difficult.
- My Friend WILL HONEYCOMB is one of those Sort of Men who are very often absent in Conversation, and what the _French_ call _a reveur_ and _a distrait_. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
- His manner was, I thought, a shade distrait, a little other worldly.
- Perhaps, patients about to undergo operations at the hands of distrait surgeons could be allowed to get their tattoos done on the NHS.
- Set in Paris in 1928, Hastings's play focuses on Joyce's distrait daughter, Lucia.
