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 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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Of those, 27 were found to contain PFAS, though the concentrations were low.
—Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
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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 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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One response might be to try to break up that concentration.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2023
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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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Here are the cities with the highest concentration of wealthy people in Arizona.
—Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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Further, a paper straw brand was the brand with the highest PFAS concentration.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 24 Aug. 2023
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When the concentration is in such a way, that’s distinctive.
—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2022
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Even the concentration of graffiti, just seeing that all over the walls and all over the streets, really stuck with me.
—Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
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The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by their gravity.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 12 July 2023
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After all, there’s a higher concentration of these hoodoos here than anywhere in the world.
—Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2023
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Those fires are why the regions with the highest concentrations of air pollution are largely in the West.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
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Of the major cuisines, fast food has the highest chain concentration, while ethnic foods (apart from pizza) tend to have the lowest.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
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These nurseries contain high concentrations of gas and dust and are also called molecular clouds.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025
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For example, Colorado is placing six new air quality monitors in locations around the state to measure concentrations of the five priority air toxics.
—Jenni Shearston, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
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