11.   Christopher Lowell is a creative fellow, to be sure, but sometimes my attention wanders, particularly when he starts talking about valances.

12.   Fox relates the tale of an executive whose attention apparently wandered at a business meeting when a woman with a male first name was introduced.

13.   His attention wandered to wild roses and honeysuckle.

14.   If your attention wanders, he taps you in the shins with his walking stick, as the impatient Marshall is reputed to have done.

15.   Just as the public got writers who could explain, its attention wandered.

16.   Joe Andrew, Indiana Democratic Committee chairman, faults Lugar for letting his attention wander away from the state.

17.   Milosevic will then suspend his war on civilians until our attention wanders.

18.   She was working in a factory in Greensboro, N.C., and her attention wandered.

19.   Some of us learn this the hard way, by letting our attention wander to the past or focusing on disturbing examples of capitalism run amok.

20.   To many music executives, the waning of the campaign lends credibility to their contention that when politicians take on the entertainment industry, their attention soon wanders.