At the grave site, he noticed that people seemed to split their attention between the casket and him.

I've been trying for a long time to split my attention and my passion between these two coasts.

He could not afford to split his attention from the job he'd agreed to do.

Automated direct-feed or not, he could only split his attention so many ways.

Forced to split his attention, the man lost a vital half second.

He doesn't split his attention between me and the audience.

The ship split its attention between the macro-cosmic and the human-scale.

After some trudging: "My guess is, the computer split its attention into a number of parts.

We're going to split their attention four ways, right and left.

I'll talk all the business, but you throw in a remark or two every now and then to force him to split his attention.