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UK
/ɐtˈɛndɪŋ/
]
[ US /əˈtɛndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /əˈtɛndɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
- the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
How To Use attending In A Sentence
- Their children were mostly of high school age or attending university which required a great deal of money.
- Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
- There will be a representative from Crumlin Hospital attending the function to accept the cheque.
- Most of the Republican members have not been attending the committee meetings.
- When sacramental participation had ceased to be the norm, people needed a reason for attending the liturgy.
- It is a great privilege to be attending this conference.
- Those attending range from software bosses, heads of government, business moguls, and even film stars and other celebrities.
- A mark of the confusion attending the rescue operation came when it was widely reported that five firefighters, trapped for two days in the rubble, had been freed from their concrete tomb.
- Racegoers attending this years Galway festival could come away winning or sharing in one of the big Tote Jackpot pools.