ATTENTIVE in a Sentence

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356 example sentences for ATTENTIVE, such as:
1. Don't pay any attention to what they say.
2. The sergeant stood to attention and saluted.
3. Children like to be the centre of attention.
4. He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
5. Small children have a very short attention span.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ATTENTIVE
attentive
 a.  taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention
 a.  (often followed by `to') giving care or attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The girls who had all known Charles were very kind and attentive to her at these gatherings, especially Fanny Elsing and Maybelle Merriwether, the daughters of the town dowagers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  She knew, by now, that Rhett loved to take her down a peg, and would spoil her fun whenever he could, if she lent an attentive ear to his jibes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
5  She had never seen him so alert, so responsive, so attentive to what she had to say.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  She was silent, raw with the shameful thought that the attentive circle might have been criticizing her, laughing at her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  In panic she insisted on being attentive to Kennicott, when he wanted to be left alone to read the newspaper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
9  She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
10  She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
11  Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  They were attentive but silent observers of the proceedings of the vanquished, failing in none of the stipulated military honors, and offering no taunt or insult, in their success, to their less fortunate foes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
13  A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  Recovering his recollection on the instant, instead of sounding an alarm, which might prove fatal to himself, he remained stationary, an attentive observer of the other's motions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
15  Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1  Spellbound, the attentive audience watched the final game of the tennis match, never taking their eyes from the ball.
2  He wishes the govern-ment would be more attentive to detail in their response.
3  As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.
4  But by then the administration wasn't paying attention, for top officials were fixated on Kuwait.
5  I tried not to draw attention to the weak points in my argument.
6  An article in the newspaper caught my attention.
7  Children like to be the centre of attention.
8  Don't pay any attention to what they say.
9  Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention,is to stop giving them yours.
10  He had grown unused to this sort of attention.
11  The magician's talk created a diversion of attention.
12  The sergeant stood to attention and saluted.
13  The media has brought more unwelcome attention to the Royal Family.
14  She tried to abstract my attention from my work.
15  Small children have a very short attention span.