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Example sentences for: listens

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In his shabby house, he listens to the blue-collar wail of Bruce Springsteen.
He listens in fascinated befuddlement as all the adults around him utter the Hebrew words to the Kaddish , the Jewish prayer for the dead.
Ellie finally grows up to run a facility in New Mexico that listens for signals from outer space, and one day, as she's sitting in the desert, her headphones pick up a noise.
She listens politely to Léaud's nearly incomprehensible English musings on Feuillade, then goes ahead and does her job with a minimum of fuss.
Klein is never more penetrating than in the book's first scene, in which the ingenuous black narrator, Henry Burton, marvels at the way in which the candidate, Jack Stanton, the governor of a small Southern state, listens intently to the members of an urban literacy group, grasps their hands, recounts the experiences of his own poor family, and leaves them feeling heard, understood, and moved.