Word Finder - attention

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Mental focus.

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Please direct your attention to the following words.

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An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

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A state of alertness in the standing position.

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The company will now come to attention.

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Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

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A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.

But he paid no attention to her warning.

Still, she said, returning her attention to the old house.

He shrugged, returning his attention to the coffee in his cup.

Something drew her attention to Jonathan, who was watching Alex intently.

Without comment, he shifted his attention back to his plate.

His attention shifted to Destiny, who was still sleeping.

Giddon turned his attention to Lisa.

Señor Medena's attention shifted back and forth between Dulce and Alex, but neither offered any explanation.

He nodded; his attention riveted on the highway.

Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, his attention lost in thought.

When her attention came back to Alex, he was watching Jonathan.

His attention was distracted momentarily as the feeding tube was switched to Carmen's other breast.

She gave her attention to a glass she was washing.

Pierre paid no more attention to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was in some way essential.

Kutuzov, affecting the manners of an old soldier at the front, gave the command "Attention!" and rode up to the Emperors with a salute.

He felt it awkward to attract everyone's attention and to be considered a lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris possessed of a Helen.

The movement caught Giddon's attention and he glanced from Tammy to Lisa with a puzzled expression.

There was a light step behind her, and then Allen's eyes widened as his attention shifted to a point behind her.

The greatest attention of all to Boris' narrative was shown by Helene.

Destiny glanced up at Carmen from her elevated chair at the table and then her attention swung back to Alex.

Alex shifted his attention to Carmen, his gaze covering her from toe to head.

It would have been humiliating if anyone had noticed, but no one seemed to pay much attention – probably because so many others were also drinking.

No one now seemed to pay any attention to the strangers, so Dorothy and Zeb and the Wizard let the train pass on and then wandered by themselves into the vegetable gardens.

Even now she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words.

The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so.

Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that whole mass of men was concentrated.

When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things.

She would like to have so much attention.

A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.

He gave undue attention to the road.

Betsy paid him no attention.

What if the farmer could give every stalk of corn individual attention and water and fertilize each one exactly when it was needed?

She called my attention to the new arrangement, and when I did not object she seemed pleased and patted herself.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.

Before the guns an artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing.

Someone obligingly took the dish from Bagration (or he would, it seemed, have held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his attention to the verses.

She looked at Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, and suddenly began to cry.

More than two hours passed and Gerasim took the liberty of making a slight noise at the door to attract his attention, but Pierre did not hear him.

Tears continued to flow as her attention shifted back to Matthew.

A grinding noise jerked her attention back to the car.

He picked up a newspaper and snapped it open, his attention instantly captured by something he found in its crinkled pages.

Giddon was silent, giving all his attention to his food, but Tammy watched Lisa with interest, twirling her fork in her eggs and squirming in her chair.

His attention left the road long enough to search her face.

Something blue in the shadow of the trees caught her attention.

I'm sorry I let my attention drift.

I imagine you got his attention.

One day Miss Sullivan attracted my attention to a strange object which she had captured basking in the shallow water.

I attracted her attention by showing her my watch and letting her hold it in her hand.

When we entered the room, the children's attention was riveted on Helen.

I called her attention to the following line, and, although she knew only the three words, CAT, EAT and MOUSE, she caught the idea.