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.
  • Here are the cities with the highest concentration of wealthy people in Arizona.
    Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • On average, the concentration of salt in the ocean hovers around 35 parts per thousand.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Pay attention to what music helps your concentration rather than distracts you, and your schoolwork might benefit, too.
    Jillian Hubertz, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Electric current, the flow of charge, equals the concentration of the charges multiplied by their velocity.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, some Latter-day Saints are inclined to move to areas with high concentrations of church members.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Protein can tax the kidneys, especially at the high concentrations found in protein powders.
    Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
  • These pathways are defined in terms of the concentration (i.e., the level) of carbon in the atmosphere, not the volume of carbon emissions.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Staff were not cleaning dishes and utensils properly and surface cleaners had a low concentration of sanitizer.
    Annasofia Scheve, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • With the state’s highest concentration of nursing homes located on its west coast, thousands of residents are also being transferred out of the hurricane’s impact zone.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The high concentration of urea allows the ingredient to penetrate the follicle-less skin on the foot easily and effectively.
    Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There is an incredible amount of concentration, patience, balance, humility, strength, breath, and control that comes with finding your way to balancing on your head—all of which translates off the mat too.
    Shauna Harrison, SELF, 28 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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