Many a good athlete has been wasted through inattention to this fact.
Hyæna is one of those who form themselves into a melancholy and indolent Air, and endeavour to gain Admirers from their Inattention to all around them.
Being firmly established in all Matters of Importance, that certain Inattention which makes Men's Actions look easie appears in him with greater Beauty: By a thorough Contempt of little Excellencies, he is perfectly Master of them.
Mr Deane bore all very patiently, though, and a reproachful word or two aboutinattention and condensation of thought upon study was all that escaped him.
Winchie stayed on, talking incessantly and no more disturbed by her inattention than babbling brook or trilling bird by lack of audience.
Her indifference, her inattention made him impatient.
She liked Bertha to surpass her; but inattention she regarded as wrong in itself, as well as a bad example, and her apologies were so hearty as quite to affect Miss Fennimore.
The inattention of the two brothers and the aunt to Julia's discomposure, and their blindness to its true cause, must be imputed to the fullness of their own minds.
A general deficiency of subject, a total inattention to stops, and a very frequent ignorance of grammar.
There is nothing so unpardonably rude, as a seeming inattention to the person who is speaking to you; tho' you may meet with it in others, by all means avoid it yourself.
Some cannot bear the sight of a cat; others the smell of cheese, and so on; was you to laugh at those men for their antipathies, or by design or inattention to bring them in their way, you could not insult them more.
I knew what kind of enemies we had to deal with, and I foresaw the worst results from the idleness and inattention of M.
All these losses were, as I have shown, entirely due to the laziness and inattentionof M.
The plague of girls' answers is usually irrelevancy from want of thought as to the scope of questions or even from inattention to their wording.
It is wonderful how many persons are rendered unhappy by inattention to these little rules of prudence.
On account of Clive's tender years, and natural levity, a little inattention may be allowed to the youth, who certainly looked about him very eagerly during the service.
She did not in the least grudge the young fellow's inattention to herself; or feel hurt that he did not seem to listen when she spoke; she conversed with J.
The hurry in which I wrote my letter to Mr. Madison, which is in your hands, occasioned an inattention to the difference between generations succeeding each other at fixed epochs, and generations renewed daily and hourly.
This has not proceeded from any inattention of Congress or any of their servants to the justice due to those officers.
Nothing can hinder him, but neglect of or inattention to, those objects which his own good sense must tell him are, of infinite consequence to him, and which therefore I will not suppose him capable of either neglecting or despising.
Inattention is always looked upon, though sometimes unjustly, as the effect of pride and contempt; and where it is thought so, is never forgiven.
The inattention and indolence of his manner were sufficiently relieved, to Mrs. Sparsit's thinking, by a certain gallantry at ease, which offered her homage too.
A curious passive inattention had such possession of her, that the presence of her little sister in the room did not attract her notice for some time.
His colonel, a very lukewarm constitutionalist, angry at the notoriety which his lieutenant was acquiring, had already sent in a complaint of Buonaparte's insubordinate spirit and of his inattention to duty.
Many beautiful systems had been tried in Montalluyah, but, from inattention to small details, they had perished.
Almost all mankind have lost their liberties through ignorance, inattention and disunion.
The first ground of complaint was the supine inattention of the administration to a treason stalking through the land in open day.
I have great satisfaction in considering the delicacy and discernment of those readers I have, and in ascribing my want of popularity to the ignorance or inattention of those I have not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inattention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
