82 examples of focusses in sentences

The mention of the chest had focussed the men's interest.

Maggie was looking straight in front of her in the direction of the fire, but not with eyes focussed to see any thing so near at hand.

she added, wrestling with her glasses to get them focussed on the moving boat.

Again there rose the shuffle of feet, again heads were nodded, and elbows nudged neighbouring ribs, and all eyes were focussed upon Bellew who was in the act of lighting his pipe.

But it was upon no splendour of form that Sir Beverley's attention was focussed.

Only as education focusses on the development of positive and effective moral character can it aid in solving the problem of democracy.

It means that all phases of the process the relation of pupil and teacher, school and home, the government and discipline, the lessons taught in every subject, the environment, the proportioning of the curriculum, of physical, emotional and intellectual cultureall shall be focussed and organized upon the one significant aim of the wholecharacter.

" Langdon focussed his glass on the slope, and a moment later an excited gasp came from him.

There are a hundred other points in Washington's career in which the same supremacy of character, magnanimity focussed on service to an ideal, is revealed in conduct.

Sitting there beside him, shivering in her wet clothes, she found herself wondering what magnetic quality there could be about a man that focussed a woman's attention upon him whether she willed it or no.

But her attention focussed chiefly on the timber limits ranging north and south from their home, and she noted two details: that while the limits marked A-M Co. were impartially distributed from Cottonwood north, the squares marked

And if Monohan has made any real trouble, it began over me, or at least it focussed on me.

But brief as was this impression, it was yet so thrillingly real, that my poor heart received, as it were, the very shock of death, and I fell backward into a mass of moss, supported on the right palm, while the left pressed my working bosom; and there, toiling to catch my breath, I lay still, all my soul focussed into my ears.

Recently the attention of our people, thanks largely to President Roosevelt, was focussed upon the presence or absence of the common virtues and the common decencies in public life.

The whole woman was focussed in the eyes, sparkled there, lived there, deep, limpid, quick, piercing.

But above all he is the microcosm, the tiny percipient centre upon which the immense cosmic circle focusses itself as the sun upon a burning-glassand he is not shrivelled up by the miracle!

And as she, literally not believing the evidence of her senses, stared at the two immobile figures, her eyes became focussed on the face of the woman standing to Varick's right.

All this thinking for years upon the beauty and fineness of women was focussed now....

" One by one the two repeaters shifted, shifted until they were focussed upon a spot midway between the belt and the rolling collar of the flannel shirt.

He knew what it meant, he knew what he should do, what he had sworn to do; the muzzles of his two revolvers were already focussed, but he made no move.

" Berkley's sunken eyes remained focussed on space; he was trying to consider.

Pictures focussed on woman in all her varied moods and flattered the male mind by portraying her wilting with sadness when deprived of husband or lover.

Mysticism is the most salient feature of Wordsworth's poetry, for he was one who saw, whose inward eye was focussed to visions scarce dreamt of by men.

With this exclusion of the open air all true perspective gets lost, extremes and oddities count as much as sanities, and command the same attention; and if by chance any one writes popularly and about results only, with his mind directly focussed on the subject, it is reckoned oberflächliches zeug and ganz unwissenschaftlich.

Although the action of this story is spiritual as well as physical, and occupies less than a month of time, it is focussed intensely upon reality.

82 examples of  focusses  in sentences