CONCERN in a Sentence

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He wondered that Fanny spoke so seldom of her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
concern
 n.  interest in any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After about a quarter of an hour Squealer appeared, full of sympathy and concern.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  Friend Sluggard," answered the hermit, "thou hast seen all that can concern thee of my housekeeping, and something more than he deserves who takes up his quarters by violence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  It may be so," answered Cedric; "but I cannot look on that stained lattice without its awakening other reflections than those which concern the passing moment, or its privations.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  No, he was Mester Ashby, a sort of automatic preaching and praying concern.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  All these matters concern only the person concerned, and, like going to the privy, have no interest for anyone else.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The pits did not really concern him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  It is a farm belonging to Butler and Smitham Colliery Company, they use it for raising hay and oats for the pit-ponies; not a private concern.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Fanny, quite surprised, endeavoured to shew herself mistress of the room by her civilities, and looked at the bright bars of her empty grate with concern.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Your degree of respect for honesty, rich or poor, is precisely what I have no manner of concern with.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  How much time she might, in her own fancy, allot for its dominion, is another concern.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  He wondered that Fanny spoke so seldom of her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Her correspondence with her aunt Bertram was her only concern of higher interest.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  After repeating this, Edmund was so much affected that Fanny, watching him with silent, but most tender concern, was almost sorry that the subject had been entered on at all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  She could only compare Mr Elliot to Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Quite rightly, the environment is of great concern.
17  It was a matter of some concern to most of those present.
18  Provision of shelter was their main concern.
19  He felt some concern for her safety.
20  My concern for their well - being was misunderstood as interference.
21  He has a concern in the business.
22  Our primary concern must be the children.
23  Our only concern is the children's welfare.
24  Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and healthcare.
25  The reforms are motivated by a genuine concern for the disabled.
26  Matters of pollution and the environment concern us all.
27  The relative frequency of this illness in the area is of concern to all doctors.
28  The recent rise in crime is a matter of considerable public concern.
29  You would feel totally different when diffierent persons do the same thing for you because we always concern the person instead of the matter itself.
30  Environmental protection has been a global concern.