mental

In a sentence

Six example sentences with mental, each labelled with its topic.

• Running six tables alone is mental work as much as physical, since every order must be held in sequence.

  Cooking

• Speed chess rewards mental stamina, since a player must calculate a whole endgame while the clock ticks under thirty seconds.

  Gaming

• Framing a portrait is a mental exercise first, deciding what to leave outside the edge before touching the camera.

  Photography

• Free throws late in a close game are a mental test, since the shooter's legs are fine and only the mind wavers.

  Basketball

• The study asked volunteers to do mental arithmetic while walking, and their pace slowed by nearly a fifth.

  Psychology

• Sight-reading is a mental workout, turning dots on a page into fingerings a fraction of a second before they sound.

  Music

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains mental. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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