How to Use focal in a Sentence

focal

adjective

• Porch ferns do not have to be a focal houseplant.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
• The Nets and leaguewide health, rather, both loom as focal points.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2021
• The stage will be a focal point as the crowd samples tacos for $2 each.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2017
• But perhaps one of their biggest focal points has been the youth.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Brows and lips are the focal points of this cartoon-like makeup look.
  — Taylor Lane, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• By changing angles, the focal stripe of the lens shifts left and right.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2019
• Our phones are default wide focal lengths, which isn't a bad thing, Dinh said.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 29 May 2021
• The first thing your eye is drawn to in the master bedroom is the stonework on the focal wall.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 27 Dec. 2017
• The only black focal piece on the first floor is the barn door that opens to the study off the foyer.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2018
• Watt, Collins and Blough are the focal points of the game review.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
• Hawkins and Hall have returned as the focal points in the running game.
  — Tyler James, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2020
• Nikon does not have any primes in this focal range with stabilization.
  — PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
• Here was a woman in a focal role a couple of thousand years later.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• But people can also have focal seizures that impact only part of the brain.
  — Eliezer J. Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2018
• Savory, sweet, salty, buttery, mildly spicy, crispy, warm, and cold are all focal points of the dish.
  — Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 15 May 2021
• Move the focal away from the TV to shift the room's perspective.
  — Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 22 Jan. 2026
• Add a floral frog (or make your own from a ball of chicken wire) to support your focal bloom front and center.
  — Natalie Dayton, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2021
• Working with limited space or just want to create a backyard focal piece?
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
• Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard have to be key focal points in the game.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• Van Lith is a focal piece for any scouting report against the Horned Frogs.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
• Celeste's grieving process in the wake of Perry's death would also be a focal point.
  — Emma Dibdin, Marie Claire, 11 Apr. 2017
• The topic of violent protests seems to be becoming one of the key focal points of the election.
  — Fox News, 3 Sep. 2020
• Wendt suggests starting with the focal flowers to create the shape and body of the arrangement.
  — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2016
• Aside from the guest rooms, the main focal points of the property are the surf center, wellness space, restaurant, pool, and beach club.
  — Annie Davidson, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• In this case, the focal family is all in a dither, readying for a Christmas trip to Paris.
  — Duane Bygre, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2022
• The highs LaVine served as the focal piece for the offense, dropping his head and carving his way to the rim at will.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Maasai ethnic group in Kenya provided one of the project’s first focal points.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2020
• Our Body Glazes launched in late 2023 and has become a focal product.
  — Lydia T. Blanco, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
• The review also misidentified the fictional planet that is the focal point of the film.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2017
• Cancer that hasn’t spread outside the prostate and has a low risk of spreading is often treatable with focal therapy.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025