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 Middle East has the highest concentration of these in the world.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
  • 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 older a bird was, the higher the lead concentration in its bones, researchers found.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
  • The lower the concentration of Jews in an area, the longer the explanations.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Anne may have been devoured by the concentration camps, but her voice was not stilled.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The virus homes in on the udders of milking cows, and studies have found high concentrations of bird flu virus in raw milk.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Four cities in Greater Cleveland have the largest concentration of people from one of the top ancestries in the state.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • At the same time, the clusters and berries were small, for deep concentration and good tannin structure.
    Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2022
  • One response might be to try to break up that concentration.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The ApeCoin launch has other signs of a concentration of power.
    Fortune, 20 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Each 30-minute class will have a specific concentration such as full-body strength, legs, back and chest, and abs and ass.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The largest concentration of hoodoos (columns of rock jutting out of the ground) can be found in Bryce Canyon National Park.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
  • In the first year after a fire, the concentrations of some contaminants skyrocketed.
    Ben Livneh, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
  • This concentration of wealth and power in just a few hands raises plenty of alarm among citizens and policymakers alike.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025

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