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Example sentences for "little attention"

  • A little attention to the matter will convince any one, that every sentence uttered by a child while dressing a doll, or rigging a ship, or cutting a stick, is really intended and employed by Nature in advancing this great object.

  • This is matter of daily experience; and a little attention to the subject will shew, that moral instruction in the case of the young, acts the same part that the legislative powers of conscience do in the adult.

  • By a little attention on the part of parents and teachers, to a few simple rules, they may catechise upon any book, and apply the exercise to any species of knowledge whatever.

  • It was but natural that a boy thus situated should attract some little attention, and I was noticed by officers, who, under other circumstances, would hardly have felt it necessary to go out of their way to speak to me.

  • Evidently nature intended that they should be the subject of as little attention as possible.

  • A long prepuce, though one that was never tight or adherent, and only required a little attention to cleanliness to keep it from giving bother, was removed.

  • Let us, before we leave this discussion of the social classes that were developing in these first civilizations, devote a little attention to their fixity.

  • It is worth while to give a little attention to this incident in Stalky and Co.

  • It was most extraordinary that his verses had attracted so little attention.

  • And I would advise you to pay a little attention to them.

  • Coldevin's speech attracted not a little attention; they all looked closely at him.

  • It was necessary to pay a little attention to one's surroundings if one cared to produce good work.

  • That much of this intuition is illusory, may be seen by a little attention to the "intuitions" of different critics.

  • More than this, a little attention to the process by which these compound beliefs arise will disclose the fact that this apparently adequate representation of another has arisen in part by other than logical processes.

  • Again, a little attention to the facts here brought together will show that the proportion of illusory to real knowledge is far from being the same in each class of immediate or quasi-immediate cognition.

  • Here a little attention is bestowed upon them, whilst in other districts they are unnoticed.

  • It has been said that Trollope is a typical novelist, and the type is of sufficient importance to receive a little attention, even in space so jealously allotted as ours must be.

  • To some who have given not a little attention to the matter it seems that De Quincey was never guilty of deliberate fabrication, and that he was not even careless in statement.

  • But it often happens that the student pays little attention to the mechanical rule, and simply imitates the teacher's voice.

  • Little attention need be paid to the claim of any modern teacher to possess the old Italian method of training voices.

  • It is to be regretted that dramatic singers of this day pay so little attention to purely tonal expressiveness.

  • It is an old axiom that "civility costs nothing," and surely grammatical purity need not cost much to people disposed to pay a little attention to it, and who have received a respectable education already.

  • All this is very awkward indeed, and ought to be avoided, and might easily be so by a little attention.

  • Little attention may, perhaps, be paid to the medical treatment of the dog; yet it requires not a little study and experience.

  • But to tell the truth, Mrs. Kirkman and Miss Sorbette paid very little attention to Mr. Churchill's looks.

  • And I think afterwards he might pay a little attention to the estate.

  • You must promise to give a little attention to this great theme before this day has come to an end.

  • With a little attention to the natural and mechanical sciences, a new world of beauty and truth opens up before one.

  • Almost any person can say something bright as well as sensible, if he will give a little attention to it beforehand.

  • With a little attention to it, appropriate games may be introduced here that need not interfere with luncheon.

  • A little attention given to this matter will enable the housewife to prepare menus that will provide the family with a properly balanced meal.

  • Although salads, through their variety, offer the housewife an opportunity to vary her meals, they require a little attention as to their selection if a properly balanced meal is to be the result.

  • The measuring of the fat often requires a little attention.

  • From the same cause often arises atrophy, consumption, and even gout, all which proves the injurious qualities of hemp-seed; but with care on this point and a little attention it may live eight or ten years.

  • A little attention to the birds' actions in such cases will point out what is best to be done, for amongst birds of the same species there is nothing regular in this respect.

  • A little attention to these favourites, deprived of their liberty, their natural climate, and food, cannot be too much trouble to amiable persons who are fond of them, and to whom these pretty birds become greatly attached.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    little annoyed; little bottle; little brown; little dears; little delay; little east; little gray; little iron; little laugh; little missie; little moment; little niece; little orange; little remarkable; little scream; little shiver; little sign; little stock; little town; little troubled; little turn; little when; little wife; little woman; orange blossoms; slightly bitter