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Example sentences for "concentrating"

Lexicographically close words:
concent; concentered; concentrate; concentrated; concentrates; concentration; concentrations; concentrative; concentrator; concentred
  1. Shortly after the arrival of the Canadian division the British, concentrating the largest number of guns that had hitherto been gathered together on the French front, made an attack on the Germans at Neuve Chapelle.

  2. While the Russians were reinforcing one flank, he was concentrating every man he could upon the other.

  3. Note first here, as we did in Scott, the concentrating and foretelling power.

  4. Thus, while contrast displays things, it is unity and sympathy which employ them, concentrating the power of several into a mass.

  5. Traits succeed each other rapidly, with exuberance, but without concentrating to form an individual, without completing each other to make a living whole, without rounding to a form, a figure.

  6. This bothered the doctor and prevented him from thinking or concentrating his mind.

  7. At home he could not get the convicts or the soldiers with their rifles out of his head all day, and an unaccountable inward agitation prevented him from reading or concentrating his mind.

  8. Following the course of the Athenian tribes and concentrating in one city, they wrought out in five generations a similar and complete change in the plan of government, from a gentile into a political organization.

  9. The German guns were concentrating their fire on the hapless village and the neighbouring ridge.

  10. At that moment the Germans were concentrating their fire upon that small line of men we were looking at, 200 yards away from us.

  11. At the period when our story takes place, one man in Mexico had the privilege of concentrating on himself the curiosity, fears, and, more than all, the sympathy of all.

  12. The enemy must at this moment be concentrating his forces.

  13. He rushed to the end of the pier, and concentrating his whole strength in one mighty effort, he leaped.

  14. But the woods were bare of Indians, and Henry was confirmed in his belief that Timmendiquas, after the failure at the mouth of the Licking, was concentrating everything on Chillicothe, expecting to resist to the utmost.

  15. With all the power of his marvelous gift he was concentrating his faculties upon the point from which the discord had come once, twice and then no more.

  16. The King of Ashantee, now joined the army, which he headed in person, and concentrating all his forces, he advanced towards Cape Coast Castle with the intention of blockading the town.

  17. It is they who act, they who choose the objects, they who persevere in their work, they who seek to win from their environment the possibility of concentrating their minds upon it.

  18. A book which aims at concentrating information upon dates, genealogy, officials, constitutional documents, etc.

  19. That more had not been achieved was due to the delay on the French left, which neutralised the advantage resulting from Wellington's undue slowness in concentrating his army.

  20. Another step in the same direction could be taken by limiting individual ownership to the things that men use, and concentrating in the producing group the ownership of all productive tools.

  21. A curious and unexpected change was here noted in the subject, Mr. Koffka, who, while concentrating his attention to the uttermost, began unawares to develop a new system of expressive movements of the head.

  22. The horse's responses, therefore, did not tend to become more successful just because a number of persons were simultaneously concentrating upon the result desired.

  23. The mother was concentrating all her strength in order, with feigned happiness, to accompany this strapping lad to the last minute.

  24. Germany, guided by this hero, had, according to Hartrott, been concentrating its strength, and recognizing its true path.

  25. There was something in the air that was opposing civil strife, that was placing private grievances in momentary abeyance, concentrating all minds on the common weal.

  26. It was the heroic hymn of a humanity that was suddenly concentrating its aspirations on the harmonious rhythm of the thigh joints, measuring its intelligence by the agility of its feet.

  27. During the daytime Paris was very quiet, concentrating the mind on the work in hand.

  28. All the life of Paris was concentrating itself in a half-dozen human rivers emptying in the stations.

  29. Yet they were pushing on with a mighty effort, concentrating their last powers, as though human demands were beyond their obscure instincts.

  30. In the meantime, Lee and Forrest were concentrating their forces to deliver battle somewhere further south.

  31. The men of the various commands, concentrating upon this point, became intermingled as they charged up to where all could see the grand scamper of the Federals running down towards Tishomingo creek.

  32. The difficulty of concentrating a large mass of human force upon a given point at the same time provides certain quantitative limits to the productive efficiency of the human body.

  33. Apparently she'd been following the thoughts of the poker players, and not concentrating on him at all.

  34. The actual thinking portions of their minds were concentrating on aspects of Project Isle.

  35. See what comes of concentrating all the powers of the mind on abstruse study!

  36. If I survive the perils of the day, better it is that there should be no selfish hopes, no selfish cares, to prevent me from concentrating all my energies and thoughts upon the work appointed me to do.

  37. Lee's army was getting into position, his various corps concentrating and intrenching, and making every preparation for a new base and a stout resistance.

  38. Grant, breaking off successively from his right, was passing by the rear to the left, concentrating around Todd's Tavern for a forward movement in the morning towards Spottsylvania Courthouse.

  39. Meade's army was concentrating in the vicinity but seemed in no hurry about it.

  40. Upon his “Sophomores of Radcliffe” he spent a year and a half; but by making his days long and concentrating his thought upon the one task before him, he was sometimes able to turn out a book in three months.

  41. He brought his report down to a day or two, and described how they were even then marching in great numbers in the direction of Gettysburg, with intention apparently of concentrating there.

  42. Praslin, who, with the remainder of the army, was concentrating his forces at Vitry.

  43. Concentrating his forces, some five thousand in number, he learned that General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was concentrating a force of twenty thousand men at San Luis Potosi, with a view to attack him.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concentrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.