Example sentences for: listened

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

  • The soundtrack is less evocative than hyperactive: It runs the gamut from Eric Burdon & War's "Spill The Wine" to Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl," and the songs are usually heard several years later than people in real life would have listened to them.

  • Larkin, to whom "jazz" meant everything you could hear in war-depleted Oxford--basically, Kid Ory and Bix Beiderbecke and King Oliver--was turned loose as contemporary jazz critic for the Daily Telegraph a quarter-century later, having not listened to any jazz in the interim.

  • I listened in fascination as each camp counselor and administrator vied to involve her in extra roll calls.

  • It recalled that six years ago George Bush, in his "Christmas warning," said that if Belgrade used force against Kosovo's Albanian majority, the United States would intervene: "Then Mr. Milosevic listened.

  • The first daughter anecdotes are light (when Itzhak Perlman played for the White House grown-ups, she furtively listened).


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