Sentence examples for attentions from inspiring English sources

The word "attentions" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a gesture or action meant to show care or respect towards someone, or to refer to an individual's focus or concentration on something. For example: "John paid special attentions to his wife's needs."

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attentions

noun

Plural of attention

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He added that it would be "sensible" for the CDC to focus its attentions on the same geographical areas as government, although exact details would be up for discussion.

Americans should be defending not merely a right to be free from the oppressive attentions of the national government, not merely fighting for something embodied in the due process clause of the 14th amendment.

Gordon Brown ordered the document to be drawn up in the months before the 2010 poll as civil servants turned their attentions to how to respond if a coalition had to be formed.

Faced with the Sky Blue force, what can Sutton, midway in the Vauxhall Conference, expect from Saturday, other than £40,000 generated by a capacity crowd, sponsorship and the Beeb's attentions?

Another parallel: just as Bernie Madoff's astonishing returns on investment recently seemed to silence all critical inquiry, so too – despite the attentions of a handful of sceptical reporters – did Nadir's weightless ascent.

Walsh is probably wary of the fate that has befallen many of his better-credentialed predecessors, so immediately turned his attentions to next week's clash with Collingwood.

The party openly admitted it was running a largely defensive campaign, focusing its attentions on about 30 of its seats that private polling suggested it could hold, and a handful of seats (including Oxford West and Abingdon, Maidstone, Montgomeryshire and Watford) it thought it could "pinch back".

The shedding of the maiden name could be seen either as a tragic sublimation of identity or as a natural and welcome step; an escape from the erotic attentions, perhaps, of such men as the poet himself.

So attentions will now turn to the World Heritage Committee meeting in June in Qatar, where the committee will decide if the reef should sit on the "in danger" list next to sites such as the Belize section of the Mesoamerican Reef (the world's second largest reef system).

Apparently Oliver was such a pro that he made sure the scene was perfect before he submitted to the attentions of a doctor.

That was harmless enough, but Carlyle is so enraged by the attentions of the Scottish press that he is thinking of leaving altogether, like fellow Scot Billy Connolly before him.

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