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Example sentences for "direct attention"

  • I wish also to direct attention here to two recent and important testimonies to the existence of the tradition in India and the Himalayan range.

  • I also wish to direct attention to a remarkable article in the Home and Foreign Review, Jan.

  • The point to which I wish to direct attention is that the difference exists and is making itself felt.

  • It is to the last, as one of the most singular and interesting records of the period during which the Roman world passed into that of the Middle Ages, that I wish to direct attention.

  • Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.

  • A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

  • It is to the history of the “Home,” and its charming and curious grounds, as well as to the history of the noble families to which it has belonged, that we purpose to direct attention.

  • To some of the apartments and their contents we proceed to direct attention.

  • The double designation is intended to direct attention to the thought that the remnant, and the remnant only, are called to a participation in the glory.

  • It is an expressive repetition, and one which is intended to direct attention to this feature; comp.

  • Allude, direct attention, make allusion, make reference, hint at.

  • It is not, however, so much the laws as local customs to which we wish to direct attention.

  • It is not, however, to bribery in general we want to direct attention, but to some of its more curious phases, and especially those which appealed to the recipients' love of good cheer.

  • It will not now be without interest to direct attention to a few of the many styles of wigs.

  • But, at the same time, we desire to direct attention to the fact that he who has been exercised with this emotion, thoroughly and deeply, is conducted by it into the higher and happier form of religious experience.

  • We desire to direct attention to the use and value of religious fear, in the opening periods of human life.

  • This was due not so much to any desire on the part of the teachers to discontinue cooperation with the clergy, but rather to direct attention primarily to the problems of education.

  • Mr. William Davis and his corps of teachers in Charleston, West Virginia, were among the first in West Virginia to direct attention to this crying need.

  • To carry the mind or throught; to direct attention; as, the preacher referrd to the late election.

  • Defn: A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

  • With respect to this 000 seed, we direct attention to the following letter addressed to a most respectable firm.

  • To render our subject as complete as possible, we direct attention to the following practical conclusions, to which our whole argument upon the science of root-growing points:— First.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct attention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct answer; direct experience; direct experiment; direct line; direct opposition; direct perception; direct proof; direct proportion; direct question; direct result; directed above; directed against; direction contrary; direction opposite; direction parallel; directly opposed; directly opposite; directly proportional; good judgment; her dressing; infectious disease; lang syne; moderate means; sight setting; under existing; wish they