Example sentences for: listeners

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

  • Listeners, like presenters, are aware of the linguistic and social norms which structure acceptable phone-in talk; yet they are capable of ignoring or subverting these and of attempting to renegotiate the rules of the game.

  • Likewise, when in May 1996, on CBS News, Joe Cook said of gay marriage (a term cynics of an earlier era might well have labeled an oxymoron), The [Roman Catholic] Church sets the standard which people adopt to, some listeners knew that adapt was meant.

  • Although it is the presenter who has ultimate control in the encounter--a control he may legitimate in terms of the interests of the “listeners out there,” their right to be entertained and to be protected from offensive views--the listeners who call in may challenge the norms he lays down in various ways, from dogged pursuit of a “personal relationship” with the presenter to equally dogged resistance to the “containment strategies” presenters employ.

  • Whatever subject a radio host picks, he has targeted some listeners, lost others.

  • Rather than challenge his listeners or tell them where he plans to lead them, he says they deserve "leadership that respects the people as well as challenges them."


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