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Example sentences for "while listening"

  • While listening to him, the emperor's countenance darkens.

  • The doctor, while listening to the game-keeper, looked serious and severe, which was not at all his usual custom.

  • While listening to this account, EugĂ©nie turned pale, then red, and finally almost fainted.

  • And one night I awoke with a start, and lay for a while listening until I heard something like a splash, and the scraping of the bottom-boards of a boat.

  • The prince, while listening, felt as if people were turning him on a bed of dagger points under which fire was burning.

  • But the prince, while listening to these persons from morning till midday and from midday till evening, felt confusion in his head, and a quivering in all his members.

  • While listening to these statements Kama bit her lips to restrain laughter; and he continued, "If Thou go with me to Nineveh, Thou wilt be a great lady.

  • While listening to these love stories his own love for Natasha unexpectedly rose to his mind, and going over the pictures of that love in his imagination he mentally compared them with Ramballe's tales.

  • While listening to the officer's report Konovnitsyn broke the seal and read the dispatch.

  • She read me the first act of a little piece she has been writing; while listening to her I was struck as I never had been before with the great beauty of her countenance, and its very varied and striking expression.

  • While listening to an eloquent oration delivered by Samuel J.

  • I found great relief, one day, while listening to a conversation between father and grandfather, as to what age children were responsible to their Creator.

  • I never was an advocate of capital punishment, but I must acknowledge I did feel at times, while listening to Henry Wirtz's trial, that I would like to see that tiger in human form take a hemp swing.

  • While listening to complaints against me, do not forget my defence, and judge justly.

  • While listening to the words of Count Veyhard, Kmita had to restrain himself with all his power to keep from shouting at him, "Thou liest, thou cur!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "while listening" 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:
    always think; assert itself; court card; favourite resort; good rest; great sensation; note here; picture book; set him; shall come; this journey; while above; while after; while back; while boiling; while even; while every; while longer; while lying; while many; while others; while sitting; while still; while the; while those; while warm