Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: listens
IPA transcription: [l'ɪsənz]
Usage examples
  • He kissed me once, and now he draws back and looks and listens.
  • There is something at the heart of a true song or hymn which keeps the heart young that listens.
  • The mother walks gravely to and fro under the arches of her cloisters, she stops first here, then there; she makes a lengthy auscultation of the egg-wallet; she listens to all that happens inside the satin wrapper.
  • Her cloister of vaulted passages enables her to proceed to any point of the star-shaped pouch containing the eggs. Indefatigable in her rounds, she stops here and there; she fondly feels the satin, listens to the secrets of the wallet.
  • He reads only the newspapers and magazines that tell him what he wants to be told, listens only to the biologists who tell him that he is the finest product of the struggle for existence, and herds only with his own kind, where, like the monkey-folk, they teeter up and down and tell one another how great they are.