Forgive me my question, Jesus, Saddoc answered, and the three Essenes, leaning over the edge of the gorge, stood listeningto the mutter of the brook.
But nobody was on the stairs, and he stood listening on the landing, asking himself if Esora was at work so early.
While I stood listening to these disputes with a boy's awe of a man's quarrel, what was my astonishment to feel a hand on my shoulder.
He stood listening, heart-stricken, to the sounds that came through the bedroom wall, and a spasm crossed his face.
Cowan thrust me past the clerk into the store, where I stood listening to the little man on the roof, scratching and clutching at the shingles, and coughing still.
Dexter felt as if their expedition was at an end, and he stood listening with a breast full of despair as Bob lay down at the edge of the river, and rolling up his sleeve began feeling about in the shallow water.
As he reached the door, however, a faint sob reached his ear, and as he stood listening it was very evident that some one was in grievous trouble, sobbing and crying as if her heart would break.
Then, panting heavily, though his exertions had been slight, he stood listening again, not daring to go nearer to the edge of the shaft.
He stood listening, for it seemed to him that a low harsh moan had come from out of the dark shady woodland near where he stood.
Lady Markham seized her son's hand as he stood listening at the deep mullioned window, while Lil clung to the other.
Then the wall moved back, and he stood listening--no sound, no anything!
At any little sound she stopped and stood listening--save for her hair and eyes, as white from head to foot as a double narcissus flower in the dusk, bending towards some faint tune played to it somewhere oft in the fields.
At the top of the third flight she paused for breath, and holding on to the bannisters, stood listening.
As I stood listening to the breathing of the horses, the excitement in which I had passed the last few hours died away, and left me wondering--wondering, and a little regretful.
Then I stepped back, and under cover of the babel that instantly poured up the staircase I drew Mademoiselle into the room behind us, and, closing the door which faced the stairs, stood listening.
As I stood listening, while the solemn stars gazed down, the slight which St. Alais had put upon me dwindled--dwindled to its true dimensions.
In the darkness of the apartment I stood listening to the retreating footsteps in the corridor.
Conscious of a longing to cry out--if only that the sound of my own voice might reassure me--I stood listening.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stood listening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
