By the end of the year 1856 the Territory of Minnesota had attained such growth and wealth that the question of becoming a state within the Union began to attract attention.
About the time that wheat culture became unprofitable in southern Minnesota, the valley of the Red River of the North began to attract attention, and it was at once discovered that it was the garden of the world for wheat culture.
The second domino was black; it was worn by a person of medium height and decent demeanor, in whose appearance there was nothing to attract attention.
It must have been fatiguing to have that immense thing on one's head; but what do not people do at a masquerade, to attract attention?
Just now, you were afraid of being recognized, and now you want to attract attention!
Finally, whimsical shopkeepers would frequently aim at the most odd combination they could imagine, for no other reason but to attract attention.
To attract attention, there was frequently some book of not very delicate character, advertised as "given away gratis" at this house.
As a rule, no picture or description affixed to the shop announced the trade of the owner; the goods exposed for sale were thought sufficient to attract attention.
Drive as near to Fairglen as you can," said his master, "and shout aloud to attract attention.
He had awakened, and finding the door locked, and no means of egress but into the water, he began knocking the panels of the portal to attract attention.
His patron being much engaged with his own thoughts, did not observe this for some time, nor indeed until the Chicken, determined not to be overlooked, had made divers clicking sounds with his tongue and teeth, to attract attention.
Education and refinement are good enough in their places, but how shall we attract attention by trying to become refined and educated in a land where, as I say, education and refinement seem almost to run rampant.
He told me when I came away that when I got out to Wyoming, probably I wouldn't want to attract attention by wearing clothes, and so I could send my clothes back to him and he would be glad to have them.
After this I return home, waiting until dusk, however, as I do not like to attract attention.
During that temporary exhilaration he desires to attract attention by eating lobster salad out of his own hat, and sitting down on his neighbor's.
All this was done in a way to attract attention, and as if the young lady wished to attract attention.
Seeing an indication of the approaching separation, Jaap held out his hat to me, in a respectful manner, when I magnificently dropped my shilling into it, in a way to attract attention, and passed it around among the males of the party.
The manner in which the lumber was arranged when I reached the spot was so little different from what it was when I had done with it, as scarcely to attract attention.
One is a bare possibility, but it convulses the class I have named; while the other is connected with the existence of civilized society itself; yet it has ceased to attract attention, and is nearly forgotten!
Somewhat later in life this desire to attract attention, at all costs, is well seen in the type of girl popularly regarded as hysterical.
Now little children will seldom carry their desire to attract attention so far as to work upon the feelings of their parents by simulating disease.
The houses were the usual sun-baked bricks of clay and chopped straw, and although the town was large, there was no building of sufficient importance to attract attention.
Anything worth having has been appropriated many ages since by those who understood its value, and beyond a few fallen columns and blocks of squared stone there is literally nothing to attract attention.
This fact is thoroughly exhibited in Cyprus, where the peculiarities of soils are exceedingly remarkable, and cannot fail to attract attention, each of these qualities of earth producing a special wine.
About the beginning of the 20th century, masters of the art began to attract attention in Europe and America, and schools were established in Great Britain and the United States, as well as on the continent of Europe.
About this time Josika first began to attract attentionas a writer of fiction.
There was no one to see, and if there were, what was there to attract attention to a man standing nonchalantly for a moment in a doorway?
But if that happens, if any one enters this room, if you make a move to touch a button, or in any other way attempt to attract attention, I'll drop you where you stand!
How strictly true this is may be seen by examining the map given in the last census returns,(142) showing the residence of the natives of the State of New York.
Among the young ladies who, dressed to attract attention, promenaded the public streets, the Willian girls were never found; their father's house was the place where they made new acquaintances and entertained old ones.
Before either Penny or Susan could speak, an elderly woman clapped her hands sharply together to attract attention.
She clung there, waving one hand to attract attention to her plight.
Exhausted, she lay quiet, trying to think of some way to attract attention.
Anxious, doubtless, to attract attention, he returned from his cabin with the astounding declaration that the lock had been forced, and the famous ring stolen from his trunk in which it had lain concealed.
The size of the larger stones is so unusual that they would be certain to attract attention.
If I had not had myself well under control, I believe I should have uttered an exclamation of surprise that could not have failed to attract attention.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attract attention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
