How to Use concentration in a Sentence

concentration

noun
  • There is a concentration of wealth in the cities.
  • He objects to the concentration of power in the hands of a few rich men.
  • When you're tired it's easy to lose your concentration.
  • There was a concentration on ethics within the agency.
  • The job required her full concentration.
  • All that noise is disturbing my concentration.
  • Rahat Huq is an attorney with concentration upon public finance and tax.
    Rahat Huq, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Hezbollah ignored the terms of that deal, building up a military infrastructure of underground tunnels, weapons caches and concentration of fighters.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The sites with the highest concentrations of the chemical are marked in deep red on the map.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Of those, 27 were found to contain PFAS, though the concentrations were low.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The volume of distribution is the ratio of the amount of the drug in the body overall to its concentration in the blood.
    Brad Reisfeld, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The lower the concentration of Jews in an area, the longer the explanations.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Lu upped the ante, tracking stress in an area of the body that contains the highest concentration of eccrine sweat glands: the palm.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Inside a kitchen with a wood stove in Ethiopia, PM2.5 concentrations are about 20 times greater than outside the home.
    Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • One response might be to try to break up that concentration.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
  • After three hours, the team found that drug plasma concentrations in dogs with the patch were more than 150 times higher than in the dogs that took a tablet.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • For very small children the amount of venom dispersed throughout the body is many times the concentration in an adult.
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 3 May 2023
  • Here are the cities with the highest concentration of wealthy people in Arizona.
    Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the highest concentrations of birds are found near the lakeshores, which makes Milwaukee a great spot to birdwatch.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Even with a high concentration of parks to choose from, few can compete with the flagship location of the Great Wolf Lodge.
    Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2023
  • Further, a paper straw brand was the brand with the highest PFAS concentration.
    Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Even the concentration of graffiti, just seeing that all over the walls and all over the streets, really stuck with me.
    Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by their gravity.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 12 July 2023
  • After all, there’s a higher concentration of these hoodoos here than anywhere in the world.
    Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Those fires are why the regions with the highest concentrations of air pollution are largely in the West.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Opening up the blood-brain barrier led to a roughly four- to six-fold increase in the drug concentrations in the human brain.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
  • The concentration of tourists in the walled-off racing area along the Strip has kept people from venturing downtown.
    David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But after placing the suction patch, the researchers found higher concentrations of the drug in the dogs’ bodies.
    Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • With the gel, a concentration of hormones seems to build up in the skin and create a reservoir that releases more slowly.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • That's a workout that had that needed a little bit more concentration on my end.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023

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