LISTEN in a Sentence

Learn LISTEN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
365 example sentences for LISTEN, such as:
1. She was always too busy to listen.
2. Please listen while I define your duties.
3. We listen to our employees and value their input.
4. Even the older men stopped to listen to his words.
5. Ellen had tried to stop her and she would not listen.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LISTEN
listen
 v.  pay close attention to; give heed to
 v.  hear with intention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  and she'll sleep in my bed, where I used to lay nights and listen to hear you come up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  I swear I don't want to go home and listen to Ma take on about us being expelled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Now, listen to me, Gerald O'Hara, she retorted, her eyes beginning to snap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Even the older men stopped to listen to his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  You fire-eating young bucks, listen to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Ellen had tried to stop her and she would not listen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  There was nothing to do but knit all day and at night listen to Uncle Carey read aloud from the improving works of Mr. Bulwer-Lytton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  And have to listen to them brag about how popular their daughters were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  She had had to listen to enough of them when he sat on the porch at Tara in days gone by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  She ran out onto the porch to listen and back again to the dining room and dropped the silver clattering to the floor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Scarlett refused to listen to the protests and drove them all into the cotton rows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  And when Scarlett took the trouble to listen to them at all, most of what they said went in one ear and out the other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  But, of course, she could do more with Frank in this sequestered alcove than in a breathless reel and she could listen fascinated to his talk and encourage him to greater flights of foolishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  She would have time to play with her children and listen to their lessons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
1  The essence of consultation is to listen to, and take account of, the views of those consulted.
2  The most you can hope to achieve is just to get him to listen to your ideas.
3  We tried to get our point across, but he just wouldn't listen.
4  See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.
5  The audience was very partisan, and refused to listen to the points she was making in her speech.
6  The audience was very partisan, and refused to listen to the her speech.
7  If we are children of the time, you can stay there, sit together, listen to those who never old stories side HaoShou slowly.
8  Barbara White and her mother like to listen to music together, though their tastes don't harmonize.
9  She was always too busy to listen.
10  If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
11  We listen to our employees and value their input.
12  The method is to listen to the music and allow expression to whatever comes to you.
13  I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say.
14  As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.
15  Please listen while I define your duties.