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.
  • The ionosphere features a high concentration of ions and free electrons that reflects radio waves.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
  • That's because women tend to be lighter than men and tend to have lower lean body mass, which determines how alcohol is distributed in the body and its concentration in the brain.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Tinnitus is sometimes linked to high calcium concentrations in cochlear cells—sensory hair cells inside and outside the ear that help your brain interpret sounds.
    Carley Millhone, Health, 20 Oct. 2024
  • High temperatures plus droughty conditions will produce a higher concentration of capsaicin, the chemical in the pepper that produces the hot taste.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The judgment established concentration limits for lead and cadmium that the chocolate industry follows.
    oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Indeed, the position requires a level of braininess and concentration unmatched at any other position.
    Bruce Weber, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Being multilingual can improve your concentration, boost your memory, and enhance your creativity!
    Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
  • During the Carboniferous era, oxygen concentration was estimated to be at 30 percent compared to the 21 percent of our modern era.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024

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