CONCENTRIC in a Sentence

Learn CONCENTRIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
144 example sentences for CONCENTRIC, such as:
1. She has been concentrating on her career.
2. The target was made of concentric circles.
3. The liquid is found in a highly concentrated form.
4. Kate sat up fully, her attention now totally concentrated.
5. He concentrated his pupils and declared the exciting news.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONCENTRIC
concentric
 a.  having a common center, circles of different size, one within another
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  On the surface there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, and that the plummet may be dropped.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
2  The place where the Yankees were concentrating was only a few miles southeast of the battle field of Chickamauga.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Calibree bowed quietly and shook her hand, but before he had finished shaking it he was concentrating upon Kennicott with, "Nice to see you, doctor."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  But concentrating all his crow's feet into one scowl, Captain Peleg started me on the errand.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  "Well, you come," she urged, concentrating on Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  Likewise, it seems to me that, concentrating our attention on the examination, we altogether overlook one of the best points of the animal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
7  But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  The police are making the mistake of concentrating their attention upon the second, because it happens to be the one which is actually criminal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
9  Mr. Washington came, with a simple definite programme, at the psychological moment when the nation was a little ashamed of having bestowed so much sentiment on Negroes, and was concentrating its energies on Dollars.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
10  Upon this the tutor concentrated his attention upon Themistocleus, and appeared to be trying hard to catch his eye.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
11  Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies' at the one end and the men's at the other.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
12  We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
13  It expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
14  It was as if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he was happy.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
15  Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that whole mass of men was concentrated.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  The target was made of concentric circles.
2  The discovery last week that two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital here had caught the virus while treating Mr. Duncan extended concentric circles of fear to new sets of hospital workers and other contacts.
3  She was concentrating on her book and his voice startled her.
4  The Tories are concentrating their campaign in the key marginal constituencies.
5  She has been concentrating on her career.
6  At the end of the day, the only way out of this funk is to force myself into the habit of concentrating on the jobs at hand.
7  The standards finesse the argument about use of calculators in school mathematics by concentrating on what is to be learned, without worrying about how it is learned.
8  They need no persuading of the dangers of adventurism, which has been concentrating minds in the alliance since 2014 when President Putin annexed Crimea and fomented war in eastern Ukraine.
9  Kate sat up fully, her attention now totally concentrated.
10  The immigrant community is strongly concentrated geographically.
11  Instead, in the main, it has concentrated on access, second chance, and a limited concept of training for community activists.
12  The liquid is found in a highly concentrated form.
13  New heavy industries were concentrated in narrowly restricted areas.
14  Heavy industry was concentrated in the north of the country.
15  He concentrated his pupils and declared the exciting news.