How do you use the word "attend" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "attend": You should attend to your own business. You are not entitled to attend the meeting.

Attend Meaning

/əˈtɛnd/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbSenses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.

verbSenses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present., To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).

Sentence Examples

You should attend to your own business.

You are not entitled to attend the meeting.

We'd like as many people as possible to attend.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

see look

Antonyms:

miss

CEFR Practice Quiz

Please ____ the meeting tomorrow with your team to discuss the budget.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Will you be able to ____ the meeting this Thursday afternoon?.

Word Origin & History

PIE word *h₂éd From Middle English attenden, atenden (“to devote oneself (to a task, etc.); to pay attention to (something), to look after; to consider (something); to expect or look forward to (something); to intend to do (something); to help or serve (someone), attend upon; to take care of (something)”), from Old French atendre (“to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”), from Latin attendere, adtendere (“to pay attention to, attend; to direct or turn toward”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to, towards’”) + tendō (“to direct one’s course; to extend, stretch; to exert, strive”). Doublet of attempt and tend.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]" — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 146:

"VVe had at this Time a great many frightful Stories told us of Nurſes and VVatchmen, vvho looked after the dying People, that is to ſay, hir'd Nurſes, vvho attended infected People, uſing them barbarouſly, ſtarving them, ſmothering them, or by other vvicked Means, haſtening their End, that is to ſay, murthering of them: […]" — 1722 March, H[enry] F[oe] [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], A Journal of the Plague Year: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] Nutt […]; J. Roberts […]; A. Dodd […]; and J. Graves […], →OCLC, page 98:

"Is any ſick? the Man of Roſs relieves; / Preſcribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives." — 1733 (indicated as 1732), [Alexander] Pope, Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 14:

"I thinke your Lordſhip is not ignorant / Hovv his companion, youthfull Valentine, / Attends the Emperour in his royall Court." — c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 22, column 2:

"Madame, the young Gentleman of the Count Orſino’s is return’d, I could hardly entreate him backe: he attends your Ladyſhips pleaſure." — c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 267, column 2:

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