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Example sentences for: listen

How can you use “listen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Not only did we listen to it, but us little kids actually stood under the lamppost and sang a cappella.
The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)
The other day I heard someone described as deaf as a bat , and now, like a man waiting for the other shoe to drop in the room above his, I listen for blind as a post .
But now if they should speak, If on a sudden they should speak again, If on the stroke of noon a voice should speak, We would not listen, we would not let it bring That old bad world that swallowed its children quick At one great gulp.
The message is that there's a right way to dress and a right set of music to listen to and that hippies, geeks, angry teen-agers, and other marginal people would make life easier for themselves if they'd just get with the program.