Listen is an English word with synonyms like mind or centre. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Listen in a sentence
Related words
Listen meaning
- To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.
- To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
Synonyms of Listen
Using Listen
- The main meaning on this page is: To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound. | To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent.
- Useful related words include: perceive, mind, heed, rivet.
- In the example corpus, listen often appears in combinations such as: listen to, to listen, and listen.
Example sentences (20)
The obligation we all share is to listen to their pains, to listen to their questions and to listen to their frustrations and ask ourselves, how can we do it better?
At first listen, this could throw the listener off, but the more you listen, the catchier it becomes, and the shift between the verses and chorus grows more and more sleek.
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Listen to the latest episode below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
When you listen to her voice, when you listen to how she plays that guitar, it could only be a calling.
As usual, the project manager doesn't listen to their team, and the team doesn't listen to their project manager.
It’s time to tell the Government of Ontario to listen to the Family Doctors who have been voicing concerns and raising solutions and to listen to concerned Ontarians before our healthcare system erodes.
Listen, I know watching a concert movie for a band you don't listen to sounds like hell, but this one might be an exception.
Possibly, it is to listen better; listen to understand and not to respond.
Their follow-up, “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” (1980), was a smash success.
They reported using the gadgets to ask questions, listen to music, search for information, get help with homework, and listen to stories/jokes.
Listen to how creamy and velvety her voice grows when she dips into lower regions, and then listen to how aerial and azure she becomes when she ascends.
Maybe you don’t have time to listen to all of their podcasts, all year long, but you can take a day to listen to an episode from each one.
My strongest quality is that I listen – I listen to the residents and I hear what they need and then I work hard to implement solutions.
She loves to write, listen to indie pop music, and talk about international soccer with anyone who will listen.
So, his major research guiding principle was to listen and listen to the population of each of his studies: Let the subjects talk and talk, record what they say, then examine it and pick what you want from what the subjects had given.
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When asked if he’s encouraging his state not to listen to Trump’s messaging on liberating states, GOP Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado — who is up for reelection in the fall — said: “We have to listen to our health experts.
Because I am a muso, I find I’m always analysing songs when I listen to them, so I try not to listen to music when I chill out or I find myself slipping into work mode.
But if you listen to what I have to say, and listen to my lessons, you’ll see that this in and of itself is a predictable pattern.
Common combinations with listen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- listen to 160×
- to listen 85×
- and listen 18×
- listen and 16×
- you listen 11×
- can listen 9×
- will listen 9×
- don listen 5×
- not listen 5×
- listen listen 4×