focalize

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

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

The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods