focalize

Example Sentences

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We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.

Those to whom the development of character is a reality will watch tendencies and train them before they focalize in crises.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick

Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin