Word Finder - listened

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To pay attention to a sound or speech.

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Please listen carefully as I explain.  I like to listen to music.

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To expect or wait for a sound, such as a signal.

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You should listen for the starting gun.

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To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.

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Listen, the only reason I yelled at you was because I was upset, OK?  Good children listen to their parents.

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To hear (something or someone), to pay attention to.

I listened to your advice.

He listened intently for a few minutes.

He listened attentively, asking questions now and then to clarify.

He listened without comment until I'd finished.

He listened without saying a word as I revealed everything, including Julie's effort to collect the million dollars.

She listened to his words with cold comprehension.

When I saw why, I finally listened.

He listened for her and heard her stir in the secondary chamber to his right.

She listened to the first message.

In the first years of the Revolution, Cathelineau listened to the exhortations of Catholic priests and royalist émigrés, and joined the insurrection provoked by them against the revolutionary government.

He listened and watched—traits that made her wary.

Just listened to the 2pm news bulletin on the radio here.

It was nearly 8pm and getting dusky, but we listened dutifully as the warden went through the St Kilda by-laws one by one.

Lisa closed the phone and listened as Giddon walked by.

She listened, dismayed but also interested in someone interpreting the insanity of her mind in a way she could grasp.

I've lost everything because I listened to stupid Immortals who thought they knew more than me, Katie nearly shouted in frustration.

Dean even convinced himself as he listened to his unexciting voice.

He listened for a few moments with Dean standing by the doorway as the boy's mother talked.

He listened attentively to her requests – something easy to see on the road, lots of room inside, easy to drive and with good gas mileage.

For a while they made small talk and listened to the radio.

Some said that babies recognized their mother's voice when they were first born because they had listened to them in the womb.

He listened and watched—traits that made her wary.

He listened to the hushed conversation that devolved into a hushed fight.

He listened to her breathing, could almost taste her skin from their position.

Taran listened, disturbed by her story.

There will be nothing standing when we – Eden listened.

He appeared as her ambassador at the court of Elizabeth to complain of the injustice done to her, and when he found he was not listened to he laid plans for her escape.

The recital of the Azan must be listened to with the utmost reverence.

He listened with tolerable calmness to their Grand Remonstrance, hut his attempt to seize the five members whom he accused of high treason made a good understanding impossible.

Judges and juries alike were maddened with excitement, and listened greedily to the lies which poured forth from the lips of profligate informers.

Gradually the ideas which were agitating Europe spread through Scandinavia into Iceland, and its claims were more respectfully listened to.

The king must have listened to the curses as well as the blessings in chap. xxviii., and no doubt also to the exhortations in chaps.

The mosques of the city were filled with crowds who listened to lectures on science and literature, law and religion.

He was cordially received, and eagerly listened to, but his imprudent ardour served but to injure his cause.

Barely seventeen months after the death of his first wife, the king listened to the advice of Canovas and married, in November 1879, the Austrian archduchess Maria Christina of Habsburg.

Canovas so fully comprehended the necessity of averting American intervention that he listened to the pressing demands of secretary Olney and of the American minister in Madrid, Hannis Taylor, an.d laid before the Cortes a bill introducing home rule in Cuba on a more liberal scale than Maura, Abarzuza and Sagasta had dared to suggest two years before.

In Italy those who prophesied the ruin of France were sure to be listened to.

Had the British government listened to the representations then made to them, that, having conquered Egypt, it was imperative at once to suppress the revolt in the Sudan, the rebellion could have been crushed, but unfortunately Great Britain would do nothing herself, while the steps she allowed Egypt to take ended in the disaster to Hicks Pasha's expedition.

They had to contend not only with the heretics, the nobles who protected them, and the people who listened to them and venerated them, but also with the bishops of the district, who rejected the extraordinary authority which the pope had conferred upon his legates, the monks.

Wynn listened, aware of the demon blood bond and its origins from the time-before-time.

Content with a no-sweat life made up of V-necks and corduroys and flannel shirts and music no one else listened to anymore?

He listened as Kiki explained Rhyn's visit, ending with the half-demon's resolve to destroy the boundary between Death's domain and the Immortal underworld in the hopes of getting Katie back.  When Kiki finished, Kris poured himself a glass of whiskey while he thought.

He emerged outside the jailer's door and readied himself for a confrontation.  The sounds of activity were thick in the hallways behind him, and he listened, trying to determine if he could hear any sounds that the demons were victorious in the underworld.

She listened patiently to Dean's detailed explanation that he was from the police and interested in a tenant, Mr. J. Cleary of Bascomb Place.

There will be nothing standing when we – Eden listened.

Xander listened, uneasy at the thought of the Guardians and Gods he despised helping him with his issue.

He would not even condescend to make a baby laugh if nobody else laughed, or even listened.

Samaritans believe that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.

The last CD I listened to was The Prodigy Singles - playing this at full volume makes doing the weekend housework almost bearable.

He stood up and listened, but the wind, growing boisterous, shook the door and rattled the windows to distract his attention.