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Example sentences for "calling attention"

  • To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, calling attention to certain omissions, etc.

  • Another way of calling attention to the best in literature seems wholly neglected by libraries; and, surprising as it seems, this is through their bulletins.

  • Hinchey, the acting mayor of Ottawa, spoke the city's welcome, calling attention to Ottawa as a convention city and its growing claims for being considered the Washington of the North.

  • I do not desire, in calling attention to this fact, merely to score a cheap jibe.

  • My object in calling attention to it is evident.

  • For the most part, however, I should let sleeping dogs lie, and if nobody noticed the possible confusion of the text, I would not risk confusion of mind by calling attention to it.

  • The sinister suggestion of this may well be emphasized by calling attention to it.

  • I began these talks by calling attention to the fact that it is so much easier to teach details about the life of a writer than it is to train the youthful mind to a true appreciation of literature itself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calling attention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acted like; brave boys; calling attention; calling them; calling themselves; calling upon; captain bold; could command; down before; electrical currents; four hours after death; great nation; hour passed; kind reader; maintain their; much higher; must suppose; natural tendency; optic cable; rather coarse; score years; secret societies; sufficient grace; too bad; wild yell