CONCENTRATE in a Sentence

Learn CONCENTRATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
144 example sentences for CONCENTRATE, such as:
1. She has been concentrating on her career.
2. Just try to concentrate on hitting the ball.
3. She was concentrating on her book and his voice startled her.
4. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would concentrate.
5. I was now able to concentrate my attention on the group by the fire.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONCENTRATE
concentrate
 n.  the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
 v.  make central
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
2  It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would concentrate.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
3  That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
4  This, Mrs. Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
5  There was only one creature in the world that could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
6  To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
7  Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
8  But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  Bonacieux, darting at her the most loving glance that he could possibly concentrate upon her charming little person; and while he descended the stairs, he heard the door closed and double-locked.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
10  s mind all through the following day; he was unable to concentrate on his work and had to stay in his office a little longer than the previous day so that he could finish it.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
11  The place where the Yankees were concentrating was only a few miles southeast of the battle field of Chickamauga.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Calibree bowed quietly and shook her hand, but before he had finished shaking it he was concentrating upon Kennicott with, "Nice to see you, doctor."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  But concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started me on the errand.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  "Well, you come," she urged, concentrating on Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  Likewise, it seems to me that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether overlook one of the best points of the animal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Just try to concentrate on hitting the ball.
2  I couldn't concentrate on my work - my mind was on other things.
3  Your essays tend to concentrate on one theme to the exclusion of everything else.
4  Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination.
5  They have narrowed the focus of the investigation, to concentrate on younger adults.
6  They concentrate ori mobilizing and deploying capital, labor, and technology to achieve desired purposes.
7  In the dry season, the animals tend to concentrate in the areas where there is water.
8  I was now able to concentrate my attention on the group by the fire.
9  Hamilton wished to concentrate power; Jefferson to diffuse power.
10  No wonder Ted can't think straight! His mind is so cluttered up with extraneous trivia, he can't concentrate on the essentials.
11  Its general tenor is to take more power away from the local boroughs and concentrate them in the hands of the Mayor.
12  This is in contrast to its rival, Exxon Mobil, which maintains that scientific evidence on climate change remains inconclusive, and which continues to concentrate on oil production.
13  She was concentrating on her book and his voice startled her.
14  The Tories are concentrating their campaign in the key marginal constituencies.
15  She has been concentrating on her career.