Words similar to concentrating

Example sentences for: concentrating

How can you use “concentrating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A fourth, concentrating more on homeland vulnerabilities, is at the Department of Homeland Security.
Further, the types of skills taught by practicing mental puzzles may be less helpful in everyday life than more prosaic “tricks,” such as concentrating, or taking notes, or putting objects in the same place each time so that they won't be lost.
He thought that, instead, President Clinton, Berger, and Secretary Albright were concentrating on a lastminute push for a peace agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me "a cheap shot"--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.
This particular foible may have been initiated by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), who had been a preacher before concentrating on being an important literary man.