LISTEN in a Sentence

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For LISTEN, below is one of 365 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of LISTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
listen
 v.  give attention with the ear
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Even the older men stopped to listen to his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  You fire-eating young bucks, listen to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Ellen had tried to stop her and she would not listen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
16  He thought if he prayed hard enough God might eventually listen.
17  He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls.
18  Reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
19  To make enemies, talk; to make friends, listen.
20  He refused to listen to her tearful pleas.
21  Stop messing about and listen to me.
22  They don't just listen sympathetically, they wade in with remarks like, 'If I were you.
23  Johann would creep into the gallery to listen to the singers.
24  He likes to listen to fairy stories.
25  To my shame I refused to listen to her side of the story.
26  People used to listen in regularly before the days of television.
27  You should listen to the advice of your elders.
28  You're a powerful man-people will listen to you.
29  He likes to listen at the keyhole of others.
30  He is a great joy to listen to.