Sentence for listening | Use listening in a sentence

Sentences for listening. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use listening in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for listening.

  • And the wind listening! (8)
  • Some one was listening. (8)
  • Her father was listening. (10)
  • Looking on him was listening. (10)
  • All were talking, none listening. (1)
  • Soames continued to stand, listening. (8)
  • She was listening to voices at the door. (10)
  • Do you think your songs worth listening to? (8)
  • For long hours he lay listening to her breathing. (8)
  • Bianca shuddered, listening to that uncanny sound. (8)
  • What was he after, standing there as if listening? (8)
  • It amazed him to see people sitting and listening. (10)
  • And Sylvia listening and smiling, very still and soft. (8)
  • Sometimes I lie awake all night, listening to the wind. (8)
  • It was crazy to stay there listening to this mad fellow. (8)
  • Then she laughed at it, and stood still again, listening. (8)
  • She is listening to the talk, but she neither speaks nor moves. (8)
  • Then all feeling merged in the appalling interest of listening. (8)
  • He thrust it back into his pocket, and stood a moment listening. (8)
  • And in vain the listening Dryad Shells her hand against her ear! (10)
  • I watched her listening very suspiciously to Professor Crooklyn. (10)
  • His face crisps and quivers; he stands listening till they die away. (8)
  • Rogers sat listening, as if respectfully considering the statements. (9)
  • Listening, but looking at those wild, mourning eyes that never moved from him, he lay. (8)
  • They rested there, silent, listening to the rooks soothing an outraged dignity. (8)
  • He stopped, having an uncomfortable suspicion that his hearer was not listening. (8)
  • Nevertheless, Lord Fleetwood mounted the steps to his house door, still listening. (10)
  • For a whole hour he played, and Gyp, in her cream-coloured frock, lay back, listening. (8)
  • He was talking soberly enough, and he did not find that she was listening too seriously. (9)
  • How many nights had that most ill-fated of brides lain listening to the idiotic uproar! (10)
  • She passes him and steals out to the outer door of the flat, where she stands listening. (8)
  • The forces of its life had gathered into that pool of light where George stood listening. (8)
  • Putting on her coat again, and listening a moment at the bathroom door, she went down and out. (8)
  • So once more she was in the park with Sir Willoughby, listening to his raptures over old days. (10)
  • The latter, listening to Aunt Juley, was looking up, under his brows in the direction of Bosinney. (8)
  • The little creature turned its head a trifle to one side as though listening for the fall of nuts. (8)
  • Wilfrid commenced by fixedly listening to Mrs. Chump until for the third time her breath had gone. (10)
  • At the top of the third flight she paused for breath, and holding on to the bannisters, stood listening. (8)
  • Fulkerson was talking seriously, and March was listening seriously; but they both broke off and laughed. (9)
  • I feel as if I were talking to the ear of Dionysius, at the other end of which the world was listening. (14)
  • In the corridor upstairs, flooded with moonlight from a window at the end, Hilary stood listening again. (8)
  • She walked in these toward the bed, listening to find out whether she could hear herself, without success. (8)
  • They brought him a letter while he stood there listening to that even-song, gazing at the old desert road. (8)
  • They stood in a clear night-air, under a yellowing crescent, listening to the voice of an imperial woman. (10)
  • He passed through drawing-room, hall, and porch out on to the drive, and stood there listening for the car. (8)
  • Skepsey had in politeness to stand listening, and blinking, plunged in the contrition of ignorance, eclipsed. (10)
  • I have stood by her tub, Richie, blowing bubbles and listening to her prophecies of my exalted fortune for hours. (10)
  • A dead silence followed, both lying quiet in the darkness, trying to get the better of each other by sheer listening. (8)
  • Without perhaps knowing it, she was making for where she had sat with him yesterday afternoon, listening to the band. (8)
  • For a moment Robert stood as if listening, and then white grew his face, and he swayed and struck his hands together. (10)
  • Lord Fleetwood bent a listening head while Mr. Gower Woodseer, apparently a good genius for the moment, spoke at his ear. (10)
  • Transfigured in the last sunlight streaming down the corridor are two men, close together, listening and consulting secretly. (8)
  • The earl slipped an arm through the bridle reins and walked beside him, listening to an account of the situation at Lekkatts. (10)
  • They were leaning over the railing of the terrace in the Palumbo, listening to the bells in the churches of Vetri below them. (13)
  • Close at hand some captive foxes crouched in their pen, listening sharp-eyed and fearful to the noisy chorus of their enemies. (13)
  • So he pronounced his mind, and the long habit of listening to oracles might grow us ears to hear and discover a meaning in it. (10)
  • After looking out on to the terrace she goes to the bay window; stands there listening; then comes restlessly back into the room. (8)
  • But they would sit no more, going continually to the door, listening and sniffing; and everything felt disturbed and out of gear. (8)
  • Clearly, Lady Dunstane mused while listening amiably, Tony never could have designed this gabbler for the mate of Thomas Redworth! (10)
  • V. Beaton went away with the smile on his face which he had kept in listening to Fulkerson, and carried it with him to the reception. (9)
  • How long that terrible listening lasted she had no idea; then footsteps, and she was conscious that it was standing in the dark behind her. (8)
  • She saw him at once, over by the piano, with his short, square companion, listening to a voluble lady, and looking very bored and restless. (8)
  • They loitered arm in arm beside the sea-wall, listening to the heaving lake, the cool splash of water on the concrete embankment below the walk. (13)
  • She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage. (4)
  • At this moment Tryst lifted his hand, and the small creature went and stood beside him, listening to the whispering that emerged from his thick lips. (8)
  • The supposed incompleteness kept them listening; the intentness sent that last falling (as it were, broken) note travelling awakeningly through their minds. (10)

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