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Turn your focus to question #2.
Definition
verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)
- The words were spoken so softly and I was so focused on the TV that it took a second for Aphrodite's voice to register with me.Chapter 14 (9% in)
- Okay, I know it's bordering on weird (or maybe queer is the better word choice) to continually notice how gorgeous a woman is when you're a woman, too, but Neferet is so damn beautiful that it's like she has the ability to focus all the light in the room on herself.Chapter 3 (13% in)
- Focus and stop messing around.Chapter 3 (49% in)
- I know I sounded like a moron, but the way Heath's eyes were focused on me was almost a physical thing.Chapter 12 (16% in)
- Now I'm focusing on football and my grades so that I can get into OSU.Chapter 12 (27% in)
- I just needed to stay focused on the ritual itself, and remember the amazing feelings that filled me whenever I invoked the five elements.Chapter 16 (7% in)
- I swallowed hard and forced my thoughts to focus on my friends and the miracles that had just happened to them.Chapter 20 (72% in)
- I focused on the words to the beautiful old poem, and sincerely hoped that tonight actually would be the beginning of something special.Chapter 22 (10% in)
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- My friends were murmuring soft words of agreement, but I kept my attention focused on Neferet as I slowly and deliberately walked over to her.Chapter 32 (85% in)
- The attention that the four of them had been focusing on trying to figure out if there was a hair in Erin's salad or if it was just one of those weird string things from a piece of celery shifted instantly to me.Chapter 4 (7% in)
- The Twins raised one eyebrow each at me, and then went back to focusing on using chopsticks correctly.Chapter 6 (63% in)
- Sure, Neferet had excused me from most of the third former work in that class so I could focus on reading ahead in the higher level Soc text, but I'd been trying really hard to be "normal" (Whatever that was—hello—I'm a teenager and a fledgling vampyre.Chapter 8 (6% in)
- I could feel that the Twins and Stevie Rae were staring at me like I'd just announced I was going to be on Girls Gone Wild: Vamp Edition, but I ignored them and kept focused on Damien.Chapter 17 (23% in)
- I focused on them and the wonderful gifts they had been given, and got ready to nod at Jack.Chapter 21 (10% in)
- That is mysterious and wonderful, but tonight I want to focus on another aspect of the full moon—that it is an excellent time to complete, or end, things.Chapter 21 (85% in)
- I blinked hard to focus on her face.Chapter 23 (56% in)
- I wanted to focus in on him, like I had that one other time when somehow I'd seen him in his bedroom, but this connection between us was different.Chapter 27 (58% in)
- Okay, Heath, focus.Chapter 27 (75% in)
- I stopped to focus myself.Chapter 28 (80% in)
- I was still trying to "focus" (aka, talk myself into being brave) when Heath screamed.Chapter 28 (81% in)
- Then there was no more time for focusing or internal pep talks.Chapter 28 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "focus" in Betrayed: A House of Night Novel.
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