Sentence examples for attention of passing from inspiring English sources

Volunteers and staffers for each campaign spent hours waving signs to attract the attention of passing traffic.

As "Shake" begins, pulsing Middle Eastern music gets the attention of passing shoppers, who pause to watch the energetic 14-to-20-year-old 14-to-20-year-old 14-to-20-year-old 14-to-20-year-old 14-to-20-year-old

Some of them frantically tried to get the attention of passing motorists, pushing shoes through the holes to show they were in distress.

A few paces up, four young women — admirably well-put together considering the time of day — walked arm-in-arm, in tight and short dresses that caught the attention of passing gentlemen.

Fixing parking tickets to car windows with bright orange stickers (rather than a piece of paper under the windscreen-wiper) attracts the attention of passing cars and makes drivers less inclined to park illegally, because the risk of being caught seems higher.

He collects brightly coloured objects to adorn his display arena, using them to catch the attention of passing females.

According to this late selection theory of attention the consequences of passing through the bottleneck of attention into the post-attentive small capacity system are only (1) that the subject comes to be conscious of the contents that the large capacity system has already succeeded in encoding and (2) that those contents come to be stored in working memory (Deutsch and Deutsch, 1963).

Its twin 35-story towers overlooking Staples Center are visible from a distance, and its massive block-long video display on Figueroa Street commands the attention of thousands of passing motorists and the day-and-night crowds that surge around the arena, L.A. Live and the nearby Los Angeles Convention Center.

We played with the original concept of the space, a shop-like show window facing the hutong lane, inserting an element of surprise to catch attention of passing-by viewers.

How might you attract the attention of a passing customer in a bookstore?

The familiar Bronx growl bounces gently around the room, just loud enough to attract the attention of a passing waiter, who flits back and forth, peeping at Pacino.