Listen example sentences

Like the brain, the culture in which we have been brought up also influences our listening and learning abilities.Madam Lyngdoh was listening to this discussion with interest.I explained about the desk, about how I had found it, but I don't think she was listening.If one of her friends happened to ride the bus and tried to describe the sights of the town to her, alli would be too jealous to listen and would shout, in English: “Proud! proud!” Neither she nor her friends really understood the meaning of the word, but they used it often as a slang expression of disapproval.Rogers' theory grew out of his experiences of listening to patients in his clinic.All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I think, too, that I had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained everything with so much patience.“Listen, child,” said the voice, “you shouldn't stand like that.How she hated that rope! She stopped eating the green grass Abbu Khan brought for her; nor did she listen to his stories with interest and affection.Asian cultures, such as India, emphasise on listening by being a silent communicator when receiving messages from seniors or elders.How would you know that someone has been listening? Ask her/him to restate what you had said.In the other corner of the courtyard, Bholi lay awake on her cot, listening to her parents' whispered conversation.It has been estimated that a manager spends 90 percent of his time in communicating-reading, writing, listening, guiding, instructing, approving, reprimanding, etc.Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds — one of the family, caught in a web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste in which they are born; the other a vicious circle of the sahukars, the middlemen, the policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the politicians.Older women – some of whom could not read – listened with fascinated attention to popular Tamil novels read out to them by their grandchildren – a nice reversal of the familiar grandma's tales! But women did not remain mere readers of stories written by men; soon they also began to write novels.How many dresses did you say you had hanging up in your closet?” “A hundred!” exclaimed all the little girls incredulously, and the little ones would stop playing hopscotch and listen.