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How to use intentness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word intentness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He watched those games from the baseline underneath the basket with a level of intentness belying his youth.
Hard-faced mercenaries watched the crowd with the same intentness that she did.
Those amber eyes studied me with that worried intentness that I'd known so long ago.
He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
The intentness with which the men stare at their cards is the same with which the artist stares at them.
And the shine, the intentness, of her eyes, the gaiety that was always ready to break out in them, had not been inherited.
The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness.
He stared at the paper with curious intentness.
Examples from Classical Literature
All the while I looked at him steadily, until his eyes began to lose their intentness.
For the past two weeks, he had watched her with an intentness that was embarrassing.
All the factors were present to him and he dwelt upon them with intentness.
By the intentness of their gaze it was evident that all were willing enough to look.
For all the intentness of her look there was no invitation in it warranting such an advance on my part.
The eyes of the lynx followed, with savage intentness, his swift and fishlike dartings beneath the water.
She was looking at him with an intentness which was almost tragical.
Sir Hugh and the baby eyed each other, with some intentness.
Nasmyth felt that wisbech was watching him with a curious intentness.
He gazes at her face with the eager intentness of the purblind.
He watched them with the intentness of a panther about to spring upon its prey.
There was a blare of heated rage mingled with a certain expression of intentness on all faces.
Sherlock Holmes had listened to this long narrative with an intentness which showed me that his interest was keenly aroused.
At this moment he was eying the window-pane with intelligent intentness.
Joan worked with the deliberateness and intentness of a man.
Yet she listened with desperate intentness, as Hodges went on speaking.
Beneath the intentness of the scrutiny Ellen colored uneasily.
She was a wonderful listener, sympathetic in her intentness.
The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.
Seeing Lady Arabella gliding up the stairs towards his master's room, he took it for granted that she was there for no good, and doubled his watching intentness and caution.
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