Example sentences for: listens

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

  • Among many highlights: McLaren fences sound equipment stolen by the Sex Pistols from David Bowie's house; McLaren rejects William Kunstler as Vicious' defense attorney because he listens to "Bob Dylan or Joan Baez--possibly even Joni Mitchell"; McLaren tries to sanitize Vicious' image by finding him a "librarian" girlfriend.

  • These days, it is a vestige, whose only real wellspring of importance is a president who elevates it with his blandishments and listens to its advice.

  • When Greenspan speaks, everyone listens because we have money riding on his remarks.

  • In his den, he pours himself a glass of single-malt Scotch and listens to Fats Waller and tries to avoid the incinerating glares of his increasingly traditional wife (Gopi Desai) and the fervent prayers of his son.

  • Nobody minded much as long as somebody else was paying the bill (true, the economists warned in their dreary way that costly benefits get shifted back to workers in the form of lower wages, but who listens to them?)


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