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.
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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Meanings and Examples of ATTENTIVE
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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.
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.
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.
4 Rhett lent an attentive ear to this remark, as he did to all Mammy's remarks about the proper raising of little girls.
5 She had never seen him so alert, so responsive, so attentive to what she had to say.
6 She was silent, raw with the shameful thought that the attentive circle might have been criticizing her, laughing at her.
7 In panic she insisted on being attentive to Kennicott, when he wanted to be left alone to read the newspaper.
8 Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye.
9 She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.
10 She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive.
11 Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.
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.
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.
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.
15 Duncan complied; and the Mohican, who had been an attentive listener to the discourse, readily undertook the office.
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.