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.
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The Middle East has the highest concentration of these in the world.
—Nell Lewis, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
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The sites with the highest concentrations of the chemical are marked in deep red on the map.
—Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
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The main metric will be the percent change concentration at the same site over the past 15 days.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
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In fact, at a concentration of 68 nanograms per mil in the blood sample.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2022
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The units shot Jews near their homes rather than send them to concentration camps.
—Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
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Of those, 27 were found to contain PFAS, though the concentrations were low.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
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And once it is used, Feigenbaum says there is no way to know the concentration of the toxin.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2025
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And for the largest concentration of art galleries in the state, there’s the Art District on Santa Fe.
—Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
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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
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The concentration of copper in one creek was so high that the water turned bright blue.
—Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022
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The older a bird was, the higher the lead concentration in its bones, researchers found.
—Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
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The lower the concentration of Jews in an area, the longer the explanations.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 27 Apr. 2023
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Anne may have been devoured by the concentration camps, but her voice was not stilled.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One response might be to try to break up that concentration.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
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The ApeCoin launch has other signs of a concentration of power.
—Fortune, 20 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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Small concentrations of substances like VOCs are measured in nanograms per liter — which is one billionth of a gram.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
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A little further south is a working-class enclave that is home to the highest concentration of sake breweries in Japan.
—Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2025
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