How to Use attention span in a Sentence

attention span

noun

• The news cycle is even more rapid and our attention spans even shorter today.
  — Eric Cantor, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2018
• Grades may even improve if attention spans can return to normal.
  — Samuel Chapman, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
• Don’t worry, there’s time, not to be confused with attention span, which is limited.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• That is less about Izzo and more about young players whose attention spans are getting shorter.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2018
• While there are still a few high-profile dominoes to fall, many of us will turn diminishing attention spans will turn to the draft.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The entire site only takes about an hour to peruse entirely—which is good for those with short attention spans or those traveling with kids.
  — Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• Last year, Bada$$ was vocal about the generation's dwindling attention span when listening to new projects.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2018
• Lately, her attention span also attunes her to the political climate.
  — Kat Stoeffel, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
• Cummings said many people today have short attention spans and podcasting allows for a sort of cultural antidote to this dilemma.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
• No matter how your community reacts to a mass shooting -- and no matter how well spoken your high school kids are -- the national attention span simply moves on.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• Their attention spans are shorter than Danny DeVito’s legs.
  — Ryan Deluca, idahostatesman, 21 Feb. 2018
• The United States had a short attention span, the general said, according to Crocker.
  — chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Is anyone better at capturing the famously short attention spans of millennials better than Glossier?
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 15 Mar. 2018
• For years, smartphones have been maligned for ruining relationships, our attention spans, and our interpersonal skills.
  — Tariro Mzezewa, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2018
• In a world where the average person’s attention span is becoming shorter than ever, mastering time management feels like an impossible task.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• It’s got to do with the attention span of 18- to 35-year-old users.
  — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 9 Dec. 2019
• More proof of the short attention span kids have, and the ease of skipping around.
  — Jenny Cohen, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
• The moon’s clash with Venus gives you the attention span of a butterfly.
  — USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
• If our attention spans were longer, what more could be done?
  — Jessica Ravitz, CNN, 12 June 2018
• Breuer, who is thirty-nine, has a red beard and a short attention span.
  — David Gauvey Herbert, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• Anya answered more wrong than right, which seemed to shrink the five-year-old’s attention span.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022
• My son was three and had an attention span of five minutes.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• There are so many new things that come up that are taking away from the pie of the attention span of the audience.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Take that time to nurture your attention span and settle in with a good book.
  — Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
• They’re also meant to sweep up the shards of our shattered attention spans.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Right now the world is moving so fast and most people have a very short attention span.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 16 July 2021
• And the attention span that’s required to let a rock band grow is hard to come by in this industry.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2018
• All sports are obsessed with pace of play and lengthy game times in a world of second screens and short attention spans.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 5 June 2018
• Think about a kid’s attention span when picking a task.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• With so many fish in the swiping sea, the attention span of the average dater is limited (to say the least).
  — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024