Sentence examples for concentrating like from inspiring English sources

"And anyone who was concentrating – like Wolsey and Cromwell – and were quietly working the angles, were able to easily influence him".

"Even when I'm in the outfield sometimes, I get caught watching those guys hit rather than concentrating like I should on defense, especially when it's a guy that I have a lot of respect for, like Larry.

PITTSBURGH — Whenever he receives a new box of bats, Carlos Beltran takes each bat out, holds it to his ear and raps it, gently but convincingly, with the base of his hand, his head cocked, one eye shut, concentrating like a virtuoso tuning his violin.

"You're concentrating like mad, looking for the enemy as you get above the clouds.

We've buried our heads within ourselves, concentrating like moles on the dim corners of our souls.

He opened the chamber, carefully slid a shell into it and slammed the bolt closed, concentrating like only a drunk can when trying to do the most basic things.

Congressional districts that are drawn to concentrate like-minded individuals exacerbates this phenomenon.

They were places where organic material had flowed and concentrated" — like grounds in a coffee filter — "and they might all be buried sinkholes or other plugged karst features.

The big problem is that he wrote almost exclusively in short forms, and his stories' effects are highly concentrated, like shots of neat whiskey.

"I really believe that if I continue striking the ball and moving like I am, if I continue to concentrate like I am, I'll do all right".

When a recipe has many ingredients and stages and finicky instructions, it can be hard to concentrate, like reading a Victorian novel with so many characters that you need a dramatis personae to keep things straight.