Explore Listening through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like hearing or sensing. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Listening in a sentence
Related words
Listening meaning
- Of something or someone that listens.
- Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.
- Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
Synonyms of Listening
Using Listening
- The main meaning on this page is: Of something or someone that listens. | Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. | Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
- Useful related words include: hearing, sensing, perception.
- In the example corpus, listening often appears in combinations such as: listening to, are listening, after listening.
Context around Listening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Listening
- In this selection, "listening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, assistive, european, loves, devices, skills and volumes stand out and add context to how "listening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 million listening hours in and and all listening to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "listening" sits close to words such as traveling, favourite and volunteer, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with listening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Listening Skills – Listening is one of the most important skills to learn. (12 words)
Assistive listening devices main Assistive listening devices include FM, infrared, and loop assistive listening devices. (15 words)
Listening Well:Bringing Stories of Hope to Life by Heather Morris – the memoir of a life of listening to others. (20 words)
Are there kids listening to folk, rap or emo music tonight at an oil-cloth-covered table, lit by by a candle waxcrusted bottle, listening to some new musician howl about hard life is, how unfair the system is, how the man is screwing us all? (46 words)
She a Colorado-raised artist who, in her youth, wanted to be a singer after listening to Destiny’s Child, to be a guitar player after listening to James Taylor and to be a rocker after listening to Tool. (39 words)
Rather than pit men against women in their listening, which tends to be divisive, it would be more useful to suggest strategies by which both men and women can learn to engage in more humane, gender-egalitarian listening behavior. (39 words)
Are there kids listening to folk, rap or emo music tonight at an oil-cloth-covered table, lit by by a candle waxcrusted bottle, listening to some new musician howl about hard life is, how unfair the system is, how the man is screwing us all? (46 words)
Example sentences (20)
She a Colorado-raised artist who, in her youth, wanted to be a singer after listening to Destiny’s Child, to be a guitar player after listening to James Taylor and to be a rocker after listening to Tool.
I constantly see fellow students with their headphones in, or listening to music with a speaker out on the mall, but I wanted to explore what students are listening to, and when they are listening to it.
Assistive listening devices main Assistive listening devices include FM, infrared, and loop assistive listening devices.
Data from the London School of Economics exploring European listening habits shows that across the continent, more Italians are listening to Italian music, French to French music and so on.
Listening Well:Bringing Stories of Hope to Life by Heather Morris – the memoir of a life of listening to others.
Mike said he didn’t even think Safarini had been listening to him: “When they first called me forward, I didn't think he was listening to me at all.
The faithful people, the college of bishops, the Bishop of Rome: all listening to each other, and all listening to the Holy Spirit, the “Spirit of truth”, in order to know what He “says to the Churches”.
Kathia loves listening to music 24/7 and if you happen to catch her listening to music, it’s probably either J.Cole or Bad Bunny.
Listening to other people, listening to the stories you're told by your elders, doesn't necessarily mean you have to repeat what they do or what they say.
These allow the users to tailor their listening experience to their environment by either removing the ambient noise or listening to their surroundings.
The two major American political parties are listening to their corporate benefactors, talking amongst themselves in their echo chambers and are not listening to their constituents.
When asked what Afrobeats artists have he been listening to he said he has been listening to a lot of Street artists whose music is adding a refreshing touch to the soundscape.
Listening Skills – Listening is one of the most important skills to learn.
Rather than pit men against women in their listening, which tends to be divisive, it would be more useful to suggest strategies by which both men and women can learn to engage in more humane, gender-egalitarian listening behavior.
SCA’s audiences continue to embrace digital radio platforms and are listening longer and more often, to reach a new milestone of 10.1 million listening hours in July, an increase of 30% year on year.
The audio equipment maker claims that the wireless speaker can deliver up to 37 hours of playtime at background listening volumes, and up to 8 hours at typical listening volumes.
Are there kids listening to folk, rap or emo music tonight at an oil-cloth-covered table, lit by by a candle waxcrusted bottle, listening to some new musician howl about hard life is, how unfair the system is, how the man is screwing us all?
Japan's standardized university entrance exam will test only reading and listening skills for English in the 2020 academic year while placing more emphasis on listening than current exams, the government-backed exam setter said Friday.
I went to - I went into nursing to provide care, a shoulder, a listening ear to people in their times where they felt like nobody was listening or they didn't know what was going on.
Listening to is sort of like listening to what you think/wish you and your friends sound like when you’re debating culture at the bar after work.
Common combinations with listening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- listening to 136×
- are listening 12×
- after listening 10×
- was listening 10×
- and listening 8×
- or listening 6×
- listening is 6×
- by listening 6×
- listening and 6×
- to listening 6×