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Meanings of attention-getting in English

Seizing the attention.

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Likely to attract attention.

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Usage of attention-getting in English
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It was Phoenix, in an attention-getting slinky red dress and four-inch-high stilettos.
The Demon Lover
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At this point everybody in the family heard the attention-getting noises.
Ghosts
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Thorndyke parried this attention-getting question: Mine is of no consequence.
Highways in Hiding
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It's another of her attention-getting schemes, the stuck-up little bitch.
Hell to pay
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Ohio's Governor John Kasich made some attention-getting comments this week about poverty and poor neighborhoods.
Ebony
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The Dáil chamber was like a wildflower garden, redolent with attention-getting ties and striking scarves.
The Irish Times
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If you do so, you're reinforcing the attention-getting behavior.
Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
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But behind these attention-getting projects, it has also, in some places, failed to provide basic infrastructure.
Reuters
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The unusual score by the Chemical Brothers is arresting but similarly attention-getting for its own sake.
Reuters
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What attention-getting trick did it pull this week?
Reuters
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Rotating, attention-getting spotlights lancing up to the dark summer night from the front of a theater.
White night
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Here is the opening paragraph of a letter typical in its lack of originality and attention-getting qualities:
Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
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You are to write a single letter and make it an attention-getting, interest-winning, complete, convincing, order-bringing medium.
Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
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Sher takes the play to the level of religious parable, an attention-getting and, in its way, forceful approach.
Reuters
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Anyway, he'd be damned if he'd ride all the way to work on the irritating and attention-getting vehicle.
Dayworld
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Watching attention-getting DVDs and TV may not be an even swap for warm social human interaction at this age.
Reuters