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    Use "listen" in a sentence

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    listen


    listened


    listening


    listens


    1. He tried to move but his legs wouldn’t listen


    2. “Very clear,” Johnny said, biting back remarks that would only lead to having to listen to Ackers talk more


    3. She was pretty sure from the depth of the dust that Jorma and Venna had not discovered it either, but Hernon was too wound to listen to that much reason


    4. She confided in Jorma more than she should have about Venna but felt Jorma was likely to listen to reason and thought he should be warned of their suspicions


    5. We should listen to them, appreciate differences, encourage risk-taking (within limits) and discourage blind conformity


    6. Violet being Violet, all she wants to do is smoke and listen to music and make fun of ugly kids


    7. He would listen to nothing, but drove like he was possessed


    8. What can you do? How can you make yourself heard when no one will listen? How can you be redeemed when you feel like your role in life is to be discarded and forgotten? You light the kerosene stove for dinner


    9. Remember: without Listen, you won’t be able to use the other parts properly


    10. Emma witters on, fussing about coming to see me later in the week while I half listen, my thoughts on the letter lying just out of reach

    11. Nancy heard a series of beeps that told her the link was established through several layers of advanced encryptions, making it almost impossible for anyone to listen into her conversation


    12. I listen to the distant sounds of an occasional car driving past the house …


    13. "I have a financier I'll take it to, but I'll listen some more for that


    14. I shake my head as he rushes into his study … oh Stephen, Stephen, you do wear your heart on your sleeve! Chuckling, I take myself out of earshot … it would be far too tempting to listen in and Stephen didn’t close the study door properly


    15. So unless we listen, we do not become aware of his response


    16. around four and went to the beach just to listen to the timeless roll of the waves


    17. They listen to the waves pounding on the shore


    18. I carry the coffee into the lounge and listen as Molly tells me about the annexe at their house


    19. "Only because he knows what a hothead you are and no I didn't trick you, I tried to stop you coming here, remember? But you wouldn't listen to me


    20. "Theo wait, you have to listen to me

    21. You need to pull over and listen


    22. "Da, you have to listen


    23. As long as it lasts, I'll let it send, just in case there is someone there that can still listen, even if they can't send


    24. So listen, nice to meet you and all, but I need to close up shop here if that's it?"


    25. She’s pregnant! John comes over, gives her a hug, then puts his ear against her belly to listen to the baby


    26. She flew into a place where people had gathered in a courtyard to listen to a speech from a man in robes on a high balcony


    27. You always have time to listen


    28. Since there was a crowd gathered, she stopped the probe to listen


    29. "If you want to find her you have to listen to me


    30. He was bound to listen beyond any reason or wisdom

    31. "You wouldn't remember because it was all after your last backup, let me just say there's been a war, but Morg, listen I tried to understand it but there isn't time to understand the war and all that's happened since we backed up last


    32. And when you listen carefully


    33. Jubei ---> as you listen, that is my wish not to suffer more this


    34. illustration of a headstrong person! He would not listen to any idea that was not his


    35. Rather than adjourning early, the Haadij continued the discussions about the logistics of setting up a seed colony in the Kassidorian wilds among the astrophysicists and any others of the crew who wished to remain and listen or participate


    36. He no longer paid any attention because he could see how little reason entered into the discussions and the council would not even listen to anything the remainder of the crew decided


    37. My eyes on my mug, I listen as she goes on and on about what a pest he has been in the village since he was a teenager, getting girls into trouble left, right and centre


    38. A cherry who wouldn't listen


    39. listen to any help and/or suggestions they receive from any source


    40. "Lancers, listen up," Burn said

    41. In contrast to that spirit, listen to the apostle Paul


    42. Yeah, we have to listen to a lot of preaching, and some of the lads go a bit goggle-eyed but it’s okay


    43. Over the next few weeks, as the procedures and the rituals bedded down, as Robbie and Mick and the other guards who rotated on shift, mixed bonhomie with casual insults and violence, I started to listen and to watch


    44. "Those who listen are very interested in covering their tracks


    45. Do you know of any other ways they could listen in? I know of some more sophisticated techniques also but they require getting into the hardware compiler


    46. As the youngest in the group I tended to listen more than I spoke, and I enjoyed a vicarious and voyeuristic expansion of my hinterland through the far more interesting stories from other people’s lives


    47. She blamed herself also, for the same reason, but was never able to make him listen


    48. soldiers would not listen to him when he tried to negotiate


    49. You have to listen to classes with your ears, read textbooks with your eyes


    50. He ran away from it all, throwing his hands up in the air and saying to anyone who might listen, “My wife is dead














































    1. She woke slowly, just listened for awhile


    2. Ackers listened more intently


    3. He listened as the beeps came closer; he was about to be caught


    4. Jack used to know all the birds … I should have listened to him more!


    5. When Ma had left for work, Peter talked to the only one who listened in these situations: his pop


    6. out to be quite a long evening, he listened out for the strange creatures of the night but


    7. Motivated by self-interest - Pharaoh listened to Moses and Aaron, and what did


    8. The brief glimpses of my new home in this subterranean world that I had stored away as I watched and listened through the sacking started to coalesce and form a broader landscape


    9. He just despised the thousand year wait but the more he listened, the more it sounded like they were going to get either that, or a continued voyage to the next terrestrial planet at Altair


    10. He listened carefully to what I said, he agreed in everything and declared he had just found his soul mate

    11. I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder


    12. I listened for cars and voices beyond the diesel growl


    13. I listened to the sounds of the apartment and realised that it must be late


    14. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked


    15. He listened intently enough, but was always wide-eyed and nervous, flinching visibly every time Robbie shouted out his updates on our preciously spinning time together


    16. We listened again and recognised the diesel growl of trucks moving one after another down the road in convoy


    17. We listened for some minutes, timing the thunder claps, and realised that it was a constant noise rather than an intermittent crashing of the heavens


    18. At a party she always had a good buzz and just listened


    19. In human terms, Smith listened to silence like we listen to Mozart on a Tuesday


    20. Or listened to the rain, slapping on the ground?

    21. I should have been trying to run, but for some reason I wasn’t afraid at all; I listened


    22. I have listened


    23. She motioned him to silence and listened intently


    24. Alan listened and learned a lot about the animals and plants they were seeing


    25. I’ve listened to Radio Four


    26. Lady Beth had finally gotten over her fear; and Jerry had listened to Jake’s advice, and took his time and showed her what pleasure there was in loving well


    27. She entered the cave and listened intently for any sound


    28. " I should've listened


    29. I should've listened when she said no


    30. They stood by their dragons and listened to Daniel

    31. The students listened intently to his every word


    32. I stood utterly still and listened to the silence


    33. Andrew listened intently; he was sure there were sounds, but he wasn’t sure what they were


    34. As quietly as mice, they sat up in their beds and listened to every word their mother and father exchanged


    35. ' With great concentration, he plucked a string and listened


    36. “Shit”, she muttered, “if only I’d listened to the old man”


    37. His forehead glistened with sweat as he listened to every word about the Lizard and my part of Cornwall


    38. I took the proposals like a business agreement and listened


    39. I usually listened to the nurses because some of them were friends of the family, and deep down knew they meant well


    40. Elizabeth sat in the back of the Hall and listened in to everything that was said

    41. They watched and listened in the market places, taverns and forums, and then, one morning, they called an impromptu press conference where they made a grand announcement


    42. Doc Paul stood still and listened


    43. He passed me the drink himself then stood by me, sipping his own while we listened, and I felt stronger for his company


    44. I held my breath and listened


    45. She watched and listened to the whole thing


    46. The animals cocked their heads to the side and listened


    47. The very next morning they telephoned the wily old publicist and gave him a piece of their combined minds, but having listened to their ranting and raving for nearly a whole minute, the old dog smiled to himself and asked the young couple, “Has your journey really been such a waste of time? Haven’t you learned a great many new and wonderful things?”


    48. She listened to the story unfold with a growing sense of unease and disappointment, a sense that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the pictures cut to the image of an ecstatic twelve year old from Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the following weekend where the boy and his band would finally be unveiled


    49. This told Duncan immediately that Rayne was correct in her assessment of the Warrior Queen, and he was glad he had listened to her council


    50. She listened to him describe the beginnings of this Hold, all that it embodied, and was fascinated














































    1. Jorma leaned on his elbow and looked over Venna's curls toward the dock, looking at the boats and listening to the charraspas buzzing in the noontime hangleaves


    2. In the end, my story took about 7000 words to relay, thanks for listening and would you shut the door behind you on your way out?


    3. Would you be listening to what they are telling you from their perspective on life? Would you be being open minded and accepting that your point of view is just that, it’s your point of view


    4. He asked his research partner, Nancy, if she was listening to what these children were saying


    5. Establish a regular, relaxing bedtime routine such as soaking in a hot bath or hot tub and then reading a book or listening to soothing music


    6. sign that shows you were listening, and is a sign of


    7. Most of us have enjoyed listening to Urdu couplets that made us laugh


    8. “Did you see how close that came to me?” he asked, but no one was listening


    9. He pulled out a thin glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, pressing the glove against the door and listening


    10. They walked up to Vinnie and stopped, watching him listening to the glove he had pressed against the door

    11. The best way is to consistently emphasize that you are available to your grandchild--as a place of refuge, a listening ear, or anything else


    12. Family remains a strong influence in kids' lives--even if teenagers and young adults do not always admit that they are listening to anything you say


    13. “Are you listening to me?” Ackers said, breaking Johnny out of his focus


    14. Audience has to be interested in listening to your views on the chosen subject because of your experience, knowledge and the clarity of presentation


    15. Listening means not just hearing but also understanding what students are saying and how they are saying it


    16. You should also be listening with your eyes as well


    17. Instead, you need to survey the situation by listening with your eyes and ears (but never your hands!)


    18. All you’ll have is “EER” which is really just a misspelled and misused listening organ


    19. She wondered if Herndon was only pretending to be asleep and listening in


    20. in the sunshine, listening to the

    21. " He wondered how much of that pronouncement was due to the fact that Estwig was moving to this end of the harness and could be listening


    22. Thanks for listening, Molly


    23. ” Growing up in Puerto Rico/Miami, Lopez was heavily influenced by the fact that his mother grew her own fruits and vegetables and always used animal manure as fertilizer This organically based philosophy toward gardening techniques laid the foundation of Lopez beliefs and in 1972 he founded Astra’s Garden, based on something of a religion that subscribes to living in harmony with the environment: not polluting; treating all living plant life with respect; and, basically just listening to what the earth is telling us


    24. " He knew that from listening to some of the gossip that went around in theirs


    25. MAJEED, the bus driver, listens to his I-POD, occasionally loudly sings a verse of whatever Arabic song he happens to be listening to at the moment


    26. Despite that, or if anything because of it, I totally stopped listening at all at that point


    27. Glenelle was listening, but though she thought she knew the words, none of them seemed connected in a sensible way


    28. I am getting very good at not listening to what they say to each other


    29. He deleted all three without listening to anything more than the introduction


    30. He cocked his head, listening for the

    31. Glenelle didn't continue the conversation about her sister's love life that she had been listening to, she was more interested in discussing her sister's existence


    32. Glenelle really shouldn't be listening in on this family gossip but she was fascinated


    33. ask me provocative questions like “Why are you here?” She was listening


    34. I was constantly listening to the radio programmes and sermons


    35. I love listening to them talking about how things were when they were younger … some of them have seen tremendous changes in the way even the simplest things are done and their stories about the village are fascinating


    36. He spent those first seconds of knowing failure listening to the blood pump like crashing surf in his ears and waiting for the inevitable call from Horcheese in the cockpit


    37. Cain paid the consequence of not listening to God


    38. I sat alone under the black shroud of my hood and counted out the next few minutes of solitude by listening to my own breathing


    39. So intent did my listening become that my own breathing became shallow, became an annoyance


    40. Listening to Menachem read out that note I realised the shameful truth

    41. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship


    42. After taking his first alleviating drink, he lets out a long sigh, trying to mock whoever may be listening


    43. He cocked his head, listening for the tell tale whistle of slipstream and the dark, forbidding rumble of eighteen inch rims, and then smiled


    44. She was sitting on the rail next to the winch listening for Vyinga


    45. Long into the night, Kara stared into the darkness listening to the now steady rain falling outside her bedroom window


    46. ’ She said not even bothering to protest; barely listening as he went on about taking risks


    47. The endless cars stopped as the red light held them in its thrall and, in company with two women chatting about their husbands, one with a dog on a lead, a teenage boy listening to music on headphones and two casually dressed men, she crossed to the other side


    48. listening to stories narrated by the village elders as


    49. She’d tried thinking about it as she lay in bed listening to the Errdian night birds outside in the woods surrounding The Centre; the exercise had not got her anywhere


    50. The door opened and Berndt appeared again; clearly he had been listening outside, waiting for this moment














































    1. He turns off the radio, waits a couple of seconds, turns the radio back on again, listens with a growing look of shock and alarm


    2. He listens while I outline what Liz told me about her early life


    3. MAJEED, the bus driver, listens to his I-POD, occasionally loudly sings a verse of whatever Arabic song he happens to be listening to at the moment


    4. Ricci shifts nervously in his seat as he listens to Ahmed’s hysterics


    5. In return, he listens to my moans about the maintenance of this site and my worries about the work


    6. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!


    7. He listens patiently, putting in a word when he can, but his gaze as it watches her face, is warm and affectionate


    8. She listens amid coils and curls of hair


    9. twice wed wife, and she listens to healing time,


    10. what type of music do you think that a Christian Satanist listens to?

    11. Sometimes, when he listens to Ken when they're alone in the flat above Snuggle's, he thinks that maybe he should broaden his horizons, but he knows in his heart that his crock of gold lies at the end of the lane, not at the end of the rainbow


    12. She listens to the silence outside – not the silence of a town, she decides eventually, but not the silence of the country either … what to call him … the dilemma plagues her


    13. Billy listens as Carol coos and clucks


    14. He realises as he listens to the dull rubber soled thud of his feet on the road, as he moves in time with the beat of the bass line, that the monsters have never been that far away


    15. Janet listens to God when she is at the store shopping


    16. the mob listens better to the wizard as the leaders


    17. The boy listens but


    18. “What’s the point? Nobody listens


    19. There is nothing worse than a MD who listens to rumours


    20. “It listens underground and tells me which way they are going

    21. “The smart kid who listens in on the History Club, and who challenges Orb and Prince, in class


    22. Sometimes I go over them with Christina, and she listens better than I expected her to, Candor smart-mouth that she is


    23. And listens to it, from the half words


    24. away of the simple shall destroy them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them; but whoever listens to Me shall live safely and


    25. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily in


    26. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise; The


    27. but the Lord tries the hearts; the wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and the liar listens to the naughty tongue; whoever mocks the


    28. when he brings it with a wicked mind? The false witness shall perish, but the man who listens speaks constantly


    29. “That listens,” Shamansky said


    30. His eyes begin to tear up as he listens to what is around him

    31. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens


    32. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens


    33. Jaden is looking around at the billions of stars while he listens to his new friend AI


    34. This became one of Roger’s habits, even during Sunday sermons… He listens and meditates, but does not correct


    35. AND EVEN HER HUSBAND WHO MOSTLY LISTENS TO HIS


    36. As I gaze at him, I notice that already, he has displayed about seven different smiles; a lower tight-lipped just before he answers a question, a standard closed while he listens, and a side smile when he feels caught up, reserving the wide grins, and the radiant smiles for the humor


    37. ” He listens to my mother on the phone and recites her words, beginning the incantation


    38. and now listens to the clicking noises that the keys make when I hit them


    39. man, one that listens to himself and who is able to see the


    40. His sister listens with all her familiar intensity

    41. He listens but hears nothing but the voice of the wind and the rustle of branches


    42. 31 We know that God doesn't Listen to sinners but if anyone is a worshipper of God and does His will He listens to him


    43. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice


    44. you are those who bear witness to me that I said I am not the Messiah but I am one sent before him; And he who has a bride is a bridegroom and the friend of the bridegroom is he who stands and listens to him and rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice


    45. In the meantime, she watches and listens as Johan offers Hartstongue the cup


    46. Johan stands first watch and listens as the scribe lies down and stretches out his limbs to sleep


    47. Johan listens to the screeches of birds, breathes in the salt smell of the water and welcomes the warmth of the sun on his face


    48. 7 For because they wronged the innocent they shall be slain and judgment shall destroy the unrighteous; but he who listens to me shall abide trusting in hope and shall rest securely from all evil


    49. listens to the laws of life and indicates the way towards creative goals


    50. He listens for a breath













































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    Synonyms for "listen"

    listen hear take heed heed mind attend attend to mark note notice obey

    "listen" definitions

    hear with intention


    listen and pay attention


    pay close attention to; give heed to