attention-getting

Definitions

Examples

• Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

• One witness said the gunfire began after a traffic collision, which drew the attention of a nearby police officer.

• Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

• He was getting another lesson in what he had seemed not to appreciate fully about cops.

• First, they allow Paul to siphon off attention from whichever potential candidate is making news.

• This attracted much attention, and the London journals praised the artist.

• His parents were peasants and he wrought as a day laborer till he attracted attention.

• The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.

• I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.

• The card table profitably occupies some six to eight hours daily of these old fellows' attention.