CONCENTRATION in a Sentence

Learn CONCENTRATION 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 CONCENTRATION, such as:
1. This test will need all your concentration.
2. He set about the task with grim concentration.
3. The drug may affect your powers of concentration.
4. Total concentration is required with no distractions.
5. Stress and tiredness affect your powers of concentration.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of CONCENTRATION
concentration
 n.  complete attention; intense mental effort
 n.  strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
2  It is a singular thing, but I find that a concentrated atmosphere helps a concentration of thought.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
3  Intense mental concentration has a curious way of blotting out what has passed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
4  My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
5  For two hours, with most intense concentration, Holmes examined every object in turn, but his face showed that his quest was not a successful one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
6  There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
9  Such a concentration of rage and scorn as darkened her face, and flashed in her jet-black eyes, I could not have thought compressible even into that face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
10  Lucy has not walked much in her sleep the last week, but there is an odd concentration about her which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Van Helsing was gazing at him with a look of utmost intensity, his bushy eyebrows almost meeting with the fixed concentration of his look.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Poor fellow, maybe he is thinking, and I can see his face all wrinkled up with the concentration of his thoughts.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Again the tutor's attitude became wholly one of concentration.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
14  And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the commanders.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
15  If they noticed anything remarkable about Pierre, it was only his unabashed, meditative concentration and thoughtfulness, and the way he spoke French, which struck them as surprisingly good.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Stress and tiredness affect your powers of concentration.
2  The drug may affect your powers of concentration.
3  He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face taut with concentration.
4  Total concentration is required with no distractions.
5  The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.
6  They liberated all war prisoners from the concentration camp.
7  The prisoners of war were led in to the concentration camp.
8  We lacked concentration and it cost us the goal and the game.
9  The high concentration of sugars forms a syrup when the sap evaporates.
10  Stress and tiredness often result in a lack of concentration.
11  She needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping on the icy road.
12  It's the sort of work that calls for a high level of concentration.
13  He set about the task with grim concentration.
14  This test will need all your concentration.
15  Therefore, base excess reflects an abnormality in the buffer base concentration.