Word Finder - listening

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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.

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Of something or someone that listens.

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Any listening person can tell she's lying.

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Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.

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He could hear better when he used his listening device.

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Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.

Is he listening to your phone call?

Pierre walked up and down the drawing room, not listening to what Petya was saying.

Have you been listening to the weather?

And he was listening - thinking.

She held her breath, listening as he prepped his weapon.

Prince Andrew stood leaning on the railing of the raft listening to Pierre, and he gazed with his eyes fixed on the red reflection of the sun gleaming on the blue waters.

Dean guessed no male juror would even bother listening to the testimony before giving her anything her little heart desired.

He enjoyed listening, though music did not feed his soul as it did the other three.

Is she listening to this?

Chubby little Dokhturov was listening attentively with eyebrows raised and arms folded on his stomach.

Effie Quincy rushed in the door while Dean was drumming his fingers, listening to waltz music on hold.

The prisoner squatted below a window and appeared to be listening for signs of pursuit.

Thanks, I really appreciate you listening to my tale.

She rested her head on his chest, listening to his strong heartbeat.

Even the sermon by the personable priest had an appropriate message of listening before pronouncing judgment.

After listening to the night for a while she fell asleep again.

I lay there, listening, but heard nothing.

Both were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why Anna Pavlovna disapproved.

Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship.

Then again, maybe she was simply weary of listening to it.

After listening to her this morning, I'm beginning to wonder if we're getting the whole story about Jerome Shipton.

Later as she lay awake beside him, listening to the sound of his breathing, it occurred to her that they had fallen into the pattern of making up by making love.

He leaned his forehead against hers, listening to her breathe.

The last item on Dean's list of pleasurable activities was punching one if you want this and two if you want that buttons, then sitting on hold while listening to elevator music from some bureaucratic office.

Most of the guests seemed content in the parlor, listening to Pumpkin Green ramble away about his upcoming Fourth of July water fight.

He wandered back to his office, listening to only silence as he passed Ryland's door.

He knew Sarah would be listening in somewhere, and when he entered the drawing room, he had proof.

There she paused and stood listening to the conversation in the drawing room, waiting for Boris to come out.

Listening to Bilibin he was already imagining how on reaching the army he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the executing of the plan.

When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, "If it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment"), was listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier's obsequious expression on his purple face, reporting something.

Rostov rode up to Bagration, reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the generals were saying.

Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching what was going on in the passage.

Dolokhov was no longer listening to stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostov's hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him.

All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words of the President, who held a mallet in his hand.

He was telling me something, and I wished to show him my sensibility, and not listening to what he was saying I began picturing to myself the condition of my inner man and the grace of God sanctifying me.

Natasha was listening and considering.

Things are nice as it is, she said to herself, and she began walking up and down the room, not stepping simply on the resounding parquet but treading with each step from the heel to the toe (she had on a new and favorite pair of shoes) and listening to the regular tap of the heel and creak of the toe as gladly as she had to the sounds of her own voice.

Often, listening to the pilgrims' tales, she was so stimulated by their simple speech, mechanical to them but to her so full of deep meaning, that several times she was on the point of abandoning everything and running away from home.

When he jumped up he did not run at once, but pricked his ears listening to the shouting and trampling that resounded from all sides at once.

Marquis Paulucci was talking to him with particular warmth and the Emperor, with his head bent to the left, was listening with a dissatisfied air.

Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn.

Ferapontov's wife, who till then had not ceased wailing under the shed, became quiet and with the baby in her arms went to the gate, listening to the sounds and looking in silence at the people.

She sat by the window listening to his voice which reached her from the garden.

The princess heard her, not heeding her words but occasionally looking up at her and listening to the sound of her voice.

He was listening to the general's report-- which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo- Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war.

She was listening to the ceaseless moaning of the adjutant, three houses off.

But Pierre was not listening to the woman.

When reading or listening to the Campbell's Homeschool Habitat materials, you will be given a chance to observe the implementation of relaxed homeschooling methods in a family's life.

The bewildered climbers looked longingly at their friends and especially Penny, but were trapped into listening to the galactic adventures of some creatures called "womps."

Though scowling, Jared was listening.