How to Use inattention in a Sentence

inattention

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  • Many traffic accidents are the result of driver inattention.
  • They lost several potential clients through their inattention to detail.
  • This was at once a consequence of public inattention and a cause of it.
    — Stacy Mitchell, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
  • Ayaz isn’t the only researcher trying to crack the puzzle of student inattention.
    — Mary Mann, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
  • Also gone is most of a tech sector whose growth was neglected as the old stewards died off, replaced by land hustlers and inattention.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
  • Because these are the sorts of wines that paradoxically reward inattention.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 29 June 2017
  • Lindor tried to take advantage of Lester’s inattention as well, but Ross was able to throw him out at second once again to end the inning.
    — Benjamin Hoffman and David Waldstein, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2016
  • NASA was one of those things — like the ocean — that was just present, exerting its influences on me despite my childish inattention to it.
    — Jonathan H. Liu, WIRED, 17 May 2012
  • Piketty’s inattention to that problem comes across as deliberate and almost disdainful.
    — Arvind Subramanian, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
  • If confirmed, Gorsuch will join a private club that mostly labors in exactly the sort of inattention that Trump himself can't tolerate.
    — The Hive, 1 Feb. 2017
  • For much of her life, the young woman was known to have episodes of inattention.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The baby was full-term and died due to neglect and inattention.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Hark, by the author Sam Lipsyte, is a satire of a world plagued by inattention.
    — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But the mayor must also take a hand, so time and inattention took their toll; the summer of Floyd was the final straw.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2021
  • But the nation’s inattention to the home care sector means that the size and scope of the crisis is impossible to gauge.
    — Shefali Luthra, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2020
  • What the modern Crockpot brought to the kitchen — or more accurately to the woman in the kitchen — was inattention.
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The dogs' paws and underbellies picked up burrs along the way, but that's due to inattention by their owners.
    — Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Stretches of strong play are marred by long streaks of inattention and low energy, a death knell for such a young group.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The first and most important sign of overload is simply inattention to alerts.
    — Nitin Kumar, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Both reports bore down hard on the programs’ inattention to phonics.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The lack of tangible progress for Alzheimer’s patients isn’t an issue of inattention.
    — Kevin Hrusovsky, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The floundering of both Muncie and Gary schools is directly due to voter inattention with their school boards.
    — Indystar, Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2018
  • This inattention shifted in the months before the October 1929 crash.
    — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • All too often when speaking of Cronin the emphasis is on how his teams play defense; rarely is a word mentioned about the inattention paid to the offense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Such judgments are the regrettable consequence of French’s inattention to the novel’s use of irony.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
  • This inattention shows that the anti-immigrant stance at large in this country is largely racist.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Paul seized a moment of inattention from the attacker to dial 911, police said.
    — Allie Raffa, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Bloomberg's campaign may see the relative inattention in Arizona so far as an opening for him.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Britain’s inattention to Ireland predates Mr. Johnson, of course, and is not limited to him.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Now, with much of the world focused on crises elsewhere, there is the risk of a catastrophic third regional war being sparked in Congo—one that could possibly be averted but for the inattention of the West.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2024

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