219 examples of pay attention in sentences

Others, who pay attention to nothing but the most exquisite purity of language, look down with contempt upon every writer who lived after the fall of the Macedonian empire; as if dignity and weight of sentiment were inseparable from splendid and accurate diction; or as if it were impossible for elegant writers to exist in a degenerate age.

It is always important, therefore, for the nurse to pay attention to the above point; and it is her duty to direct the attention of the medical man to the subject, if anything unusual or unnatural be present.

What do you want, anyway?" "Want you to shut up and pay attention to me!"

" "Pay attention, then!find the left eye of the skull.

In order to insure the rise of ideas in an orderly manner, pay attention to the manner in which you acquire them.

V. hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen, pay attention, take heed; give an ear, lend an ear, bend an ear; catch, catch a sound, prick up one's ears; give ear, give a hearing, give audience to. hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears. become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear, reach the ear; be heard; ring in the ear &c (resound) 408.

Children who refused to pay attention were (much too quickly) drugged with addictive amphetamines before the real reasons for their adaptation to the onslaught of commercial messages were even considered.

casita, f., small house, cottage. caso, m., case, event, circumstance, effect, fact, matter, affair; es el , the fact is; hacerde, to pay attention to; to care about; to consider important.

cuidar, to take care, look after, care for, care, pay attention, notice.

"Because, if you don't pay attention to my request I'm afraid I shall be unable to curb my desire to land both my fists in your eyes.

[Sidenote: End of the Trip] I am glad my hair curls naturally, because I laughed so at the face of Hippolyte, gesticulating at the Baronne, that I did not pay attention to a wave, and it threw me over, and I went right under water.

Pay attention to your spelling, pointing, the use of capitals, and to your handwriting.

So they determined that One-Eye should go with the maiden when she drove the goat to the meadow and pay attention to what passed, and observe whether any one brought her to eat or to drink.

That is an assumption of this sort:"If it be desirable to be wise, it is proper to pay attention to philosophy."

And he said he'd try not to pay all his attention to the stars this time; and Mother laughed and said, "Nonsense," and that she adored stars herself, and that he must pay attention to the stars.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit": there, I'll just remember that, And I'll say it over 'n over, till I've got it good and pat, For when I get home from meetin', Gran'ma'll ask me for the text, And if I say I've forgot it, she'll be goin' for me next, Say in', I don't pay attention, and what am I comin' to; Tellin' 'bout when she was little, same as old folks always do.

The power of the probable antagonists and of the presumable allies will have a certain importance for it, and its Government will in its plans and military preparations pay attention to their grouping and attitudes; but these preparations must never be motived by such considerations alone.

" "Now pay attention, here it is.

I didn't pay attention to nothin' much when I was young.

They discovered that no cause can get recognition in politics unless it is brought to the attention, and that John Bull in particular will not begin to pay attention 'until, you stand on your head to talk to him.'

You pay attention too, sonny.

His delight Was to keep him whole hours standing in front of his door, obliged to listen and to pay attention to all his words.

"They had to come, thick as leaves in Vallombrosa," remarked a familiar voice from far above her, "before you would pay attention.

To Emmeline this was a great privation, as poetry and music had ever been her chief delights, and the loss of even one night's enjoyment was felt severely; but she acquiesced without a murmur, appreciating the truth of her father's remark, that it was impossible to pay attention to the Sabbath duties when the previous evening had been thus employed.

Mrs. Shutterfield took us into a little parlor on one side of the hall, and then we three sat down, and I must say I was so busy looking at the queer, delightful room, with everything in itchairs, tables, carpets, walls, pictures, and flower-vasesall belonging to a bygone epoch, though perfectly fresh, as if just made, that I could scarcely pay attention to what the lady said.

219 examples of  pay attention  in sentences