How to Use attention span in a Sentence

attention span

noun
  • How is your attention span these days?
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • No one has the attention span for long stories!
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Plus, that battery lasts way longer than any of our attention spans.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At that point, the only scarce thing left was the attention span of golf fans.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Our reading woes can’t just be about attention span.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Their attention span is only so much.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
  • This is also a great time to set new boundaries around your screen time and attention span.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 17 Aug. 2025
  • And their attention spans are shorter.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • More than a third say their own attention spans have gotten worse over the past 10 years.
    — Fred Backus, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Most little kids have the attention span of goldfish.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The ever-shrinking attention span of the world at large is widely known.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • For better or worse, attention spans have shortened.
    — Ernest Sturm, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Here's how Gen Z is fixing their attention spans.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Kids seem to have very little attention span, but the episodes run for 22 minutes.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • While the world’s attention span quickly moved on from the tragedy, Albom’s did not.
    — Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • They aren’t constrained by attention spans or the pull of conformity.
    — Neeraj Gulati, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Our attention span of somebody is seconds.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The media attention span is well-suited to the world of 50-words-or-less tweets and posts.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Rents went up, attention spans went down and our phones slowly became the default hangout.
    — Stephanie Hind, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe my attention span is too short for documentaries.
    — Sarah Hartshorne, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2026
  • And endless scrolling has caused concerns about people's mental health and attention spans.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 4 June 2026
  • Their attention spans are really short.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Peppermint Patty has a short attention span and often falls asleep at her desk in school.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Young fans stretched their attention spans, watching entire seasons of a show where episodes might range anywhere from an hour to two hours plus.
    — Lorraine Ali, Boston Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Thoughts move a lot faster, making our attention spans shorter and more difficult to maintain.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • These movies span galaxies, with our heroes battling monsters, aliens, and short attention spans.
    — Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • At the same time, audience attention spans have shortened, Santo said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Take that, panic over vanishing attention spans!
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In just the last two years, the attention span of shoppers has reduced significantly.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
  • Maybe fretting over fading attention spans is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Feb. 2026

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