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Example sentences for "she listened"

  • In the painful monotony of her thought, she listened to the rolling of wagons which at long intervals passed on the quay.

  • She listened a great deal and talked little.

  • She listened, humiliated but consoled, thinking how she would have suffered had she found him generous.

  • She listened to him without attention and without impatience.

  • She listened languidly to the drops falling on the terrace.

  • She listened to his slightly scuffling stride at her side.

  • She remembered the moment of taking her eyes away from the singer and the platform, and feeling the crowded room and the airlessness, and then the song going steadily on from note to note as she listened.

  • She listened for a while to two voices across the landing.

  • She listened now, her head raised, and the two men, their eyes bleared but their noses sniffing as though they were dogs, listened also.

  • She listened for a moment before she started upstairs, she saw Mr. Crashaw's eyes in the dark--she heard his voice.

  • She listened, and the sudden chirping of some sparrows beyond her window only accentuated the sense of expectation.

  • Pale and motionless, as if she had lost the use of hands and feet, she listened to the light tap at the door.

  • She listened absently as they went silently down the main path of the garden, Vera with her eyes on the ground.

  • While Darya Pavlovna was speaking, she listened, pressing her lips superciliously.

  • I saw her face as she listened, and ce Maurice.

  • She listened, and bent her head as though meditating.

  • He rambled through the scenes of his old pursuits--through many where Florence lost him as she listened--sometimes for hours.

  • The child shrunk as she listened--and was gone, before her humble friend looked round again.

  • Then, as she listened, quick interest touched her features to a new life.

  • As she listened to the Inspector's assurances, the mocking expression of her face was not encouraging to that astute individual, but he persevered manfully.

  • As she listened to the sobbing screams she did not wonder that people were so frightened that they gave him his own way in everything rather than hear them.

  • She listened for a few minutes and each minute she became more and more sure.

  • Mary ate her breakfast slowly as she listened.

  • She listened, and a bee hummed in through the open doorway.

  • As she listened, no sound brake the quiet of the place.

  • She listened, but the only answer was the humming of the bees in the still September morning.

  • She listened; some one was whistling an air she had heard before--Mrs. Barclay had been singing it last night!

  • She listened again--and the foreboding deepened to an amazed fear.

  • She thrust her head forward toward Nan-Tauach, regarding the moving lights; she listened.

  • She listened gravely, and as we finished Thora sighed and opened her eyes.

  • She looked all round, she listened to the distant sheep-bells, she drew into her nostrils the green scents of the valley.

  • She smelt it as she listened to the watchman's voice, shutting her eyes.

  • She listened to it and forgot the chronicle of the passing hour.

  • Sometimes she spent an hour or two in Westminster Abbey; and on many dark afternoons she made her way to St. Paul's Cathedral where, sitting a long way from the choir, she listened to evensong.

  • But now, as she listened to this anthem, she saw a walled-in garden, with green turf like moss, old elm trees and straight narrow paths.

  • She listened intently to his every movement.

  • Loud voices in the antechamber interrupted her; she listened in breathless expectation.

  • She listened with a careless indifference, as he again demanded, in the king's name, the key to the state archives.

  • Madame du Trouffle paced her room restlessly; she listened to every stroke of the clock, every sound made her tremble.

  • She listened to his light breathing, and, bowing lower, kissed the poor, wan lips.

  • She listened to her eloquent discourse, but she could not help blushing, used as she was to Lurida's audacities.

  • Polly Ann led the scrawny ponies to the trough, but her eyes snapped with merriment as she listened.

  • Her mind, sensitive to new ideas, had been keenly stimulated as she listened to Siddons, who began patiently to dwell once more on the ill effect of the conditions he had discovered on the welfare of the entire community.

  • Janet's imagination was gradually fired as she listened to the visitor's eloquence; and the textile industry, which hitherto had seemed to her uninteresting and sordid, took on the colours of romance.

  • She listened, motionless, though something of what that narrative cost her I knew by the current of sympathy that ran now between us.

  • She listened eagerly, now with compassion, and now showing her white teeth in amusement.

  • As she listened to the music of the voice she loved, Marsa said to herself, that sweet indeed was life, which, after so many trials, still had in reserve for her such joys.

  • She listened, she heard him; but Andras wondered whether she understood, she stood so still and motionless, as if stupefied by the shock of a moral tempest.

  • She listened to the Prince as he spoke of the future, of all the happiness of their common existence.

  • She listened as if her resolution to die had not been taken, and as if Zilah was promising her, not a minute, but an eternity, of joy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she listened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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