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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:

It's not as groundbreaking as 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain , but it's close: "[T]he music is leaner and cleaner, with lunatic word play that remains an advanced course in pretzel logic" (Chris Nashawaty, Fortune ). The album "redefines the band's stellar status" (Colin Berry, the San Francisco Chronicle ), and vocalist-guitarist Stephen Malkmus delivers not just the expected musical power-punch but dead-on lyrics as well: It's "his most direct statement of purpose ever (in short: Things hurt, and growing up is hard, but kissing helps)" (Joe Levy, Rolling Stone ). (Click here to listen.)
De Hooch cannot match the sheer glamour of Vermeer, the meditative inwardness of Vermeer's women, the pearly mystery of their moods as they mull over love letters or listen to music.
During those several weeks of early summer the world could listen to articulate speakers of English who have the ability to manipulate our minds and twist our emotions with word-images.
Rosenbaum writes, "I'm not unwilling to listen to criticism, but a critique clothed in such an invincible armor of arrogance and ignorance is, well, typical of cyberchat rhetoric."
You can read it and also listen to it in the voice of the author (or, if the author is dead, in the voice of Robert Pinsky).