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
  • Investors would do well to keep their attention spans longer.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Breuer, who is thirty-nine, has a red beard and a short attention span.
    — David Gauvey Herbert, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
  • People’s attention spans for these kind of things is short-lived.
    — Luke Winkie, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • More proof of the short attention span kids have, and the ease of skipping around.
    — Jenny Cohen, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Anya answered more wrong than right, which seemed to shrink the five-year-old’s attention span.
    — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Take that time to nurture your attention span and settle in with a good book.
    — Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Right now the world is moving so fast and most people have a very short attention span.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 16 July 2021
  • Research has shown that our attention spans have fallen over the years.
    — Cherian Koshy, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • This is also a great time to set new boundaries around your screen time and attention span.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 17 Aug. 2025
  • They’re also meant to sweep up the shards of our shattered attention spans.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • 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 news cycle is even more rapid and our attention spans even shorter today.
    — Eric Cantor, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2018
  • In a world of short attention spans, being noticed as one of those right options is gold.
    — Lior Pozin, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • All sports are obsessed with pace of play and lengthy game times in a world of second screens and short attention spans.
    — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 5 June 2018
  • The ever-shrinking attention span of the world at large is widely known.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The moon’s clash with Venus gives you the attention span of a butterfly.
    — USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
  • And the attention span that’s required to let a rock band grow is hard to come by in this industry.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Soon though, the moment was over, and not because of the short attention span of young consumers.
    — Jennifer Le Zotte, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
  • For better or worse, attention spans have shortened.
    — Ernest Sturm, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But a week makes quite a difference, and gamers have a short attention span if they’re not kept engaged.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • 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

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