Sentence examples for to attentive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
- She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.
SERVICE -- Varies with server, from casual to attentive.
She would have us believe that her dazzling journey, from growing up in segregated Birmingham to helping to lead the world, can be credited to attentive parents, the "extraordinary, ordinary" folk of the title.
"So why do you have a problem with this?" he asked, pointing me to the beliefs of native peoples worldwide that animals can convey meaning and illumination to attentive humans.
Prospective owners will be flattered with factory tours to watch their cars being built, and will have 24-hour access to attentive "Maybach relationship managers" reachable through single-button dialing on the car's telephone keypad.
(Note to attentive grammar trolls among Times readers: Neither I nor my editors had anything to do with this whim of punctuation.) Is it meant as an example of the rule-breaking freedom of creative folk?
For all his vast, sometimes obscure horizon of reference, he offers a renewed commitment to attentive, eccentric care -- represented, for example, by the heroine of his title poem, a "reticent epistemologist" who "parks / Gets out, checks the curb, reparks" under the "Thunder of jets / Peristalsis of great capitals".
My study is to be attentive, to please and to praise.
A mother's primary role is to acknowledge her children, to be attentive to their words.
Physicians should to be attentive to these consequences and provide attention and supportive care.
We need these moments, and we need to be attentive to them.
Isn't it better to be attentive to what is and will be happening?
