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How to use listened in a sentence

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About 800 children drawn from various schools listened in rapt attention and went home with material on traffic rules and regulations.
In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster.
He closed his eyes and listened to the Forestmaster's whimsical voice change to a somber, sorrowful tone.
To all my online friends who have listened to my whinges and whines and put up with my annoyingly self centred outlook on life.
She listened to the soft calling of the birds and the wind whispering through the trees.
Kyuna switched over to autopilot and allowed herself to slip into a trance-like state as she listened to the music.
On Monday I listened to Liam Bartlett on WA ABC morning radio to hear the talkback and interviews.
To sit in it on a windy day was an experience in itself as you listened to the wind whistling through and rattling the galvanised roof.
Sneakily, I listened in to Heathrow's air traffic control on an old digital airband radio I picked up a couple of years back.
I was listened to with interest and was invited to return again when more of the workers were present.
Those who have listened to him once are found to be yearning to watch him perform again and again.
Most of the once vociferous campaigners were too busy to talk as they listened to the latest news on a wind-up radio.
He has read widely in the archives, and listened afresh to the music of the period.
But all my friends who'd never really listened to them were blown away, and loved it.
I was reluctant but not stubborn, I listened to what he had to say because I value him and his opinions.
As I stood there being talked at by Levi, I listened to pieces of conversation from our table.
She listened to patients' problems and helped them in realistic and practical ways.
The time has come to have an NHS where the patients are listened to and not talked at.
I gingerly crept to my parents' room and listened with my ear at the keyhole.
For years now we have listened to and read about one inquiry after another, about this politician and that politician who was on the take.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He listened but heard only the gurgle of the Vulcan's wake and the creak of her plates.
No one who listened to her could doubt her perfect truthfulness and integrity.
Wee listened a moment, while the birds twittered and chirped with all their hearts.
She loved the running flame that coursed through her as she listened to him.
Sami had listened in silence, but like one who does not understand what he hears.
As if again to disenchant himself, he glanced at Mary as she, too, listened.
All the while, as he listened, he eyed Don Jaime with fearful anxiety as the physician moved in and out from choza to cabana.
When it began to chirp faintly, he listened as if it were a beautiful sound.
He proceeded to explain, compendiously, his doings of the past week, to which the girl listened politely.
After coffee we were ushered into the drawing-room, and listened to a concert.
The tune was familiar to her in happier days, and she listened to it with tears.
Salazar received them with dignity, and listened calmly to their entreaties.
She listened with a curiosity which drank in every word and yet was not satiated.
A sense of fear and loneliness and disembodiment had fallen upon him while he listened to her.
The rajah listened to the answers, and then said something eagerly to Mr Braine.
The jury had listened to the buzzard's harangue, with their eyes, not with their ears.
I listened, and heard the cawing of rooks, the neighing of horses, and the lowing of cattle.
She listened to the ceaseless chatter in the dressing-room with a happy smile.
Then Tresler told him what he had seen at the edge of the pinewoods, and the choreman listened with careful attention.
She listened to him, silent, overcome with compassion, yet very happy withal.
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