VERB
- listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation
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listen without the speaker's knowledge
the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations
How To Use listen in In A Sentence
- 'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room' FallNet - the punk foot of nose
- The kid shook his drink loosely, watching as the alcohol glisten in the ice cubes.
- Birders listen intently for songs they haven't heard for months as they search for "FOS" (first-of-season) sightings of species that have either returned from the tropics to nest or are passing through on their way to more northerly nesting areas. Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
- A malfunction is being blamed for some callers being able to listen in to other people's calls - and presumably, other people earwigging into their conversations.
- But if that system is allowed to rot by religious leaders forgetting that their first responsibility is to communicate moral behavior and courageously criticize actions that unweave the fabric of society, the result is newspaper editors who will listen in to a dead girl's messages to boost circulation and youth who feel the right to burn down a city when angry. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Decline and Fall of British Values
- They're wrapped up in jangle and glisten in the sun, smelling like a new cassette. Music (For Robots): July 2006 Archives
- John Y. Brown, owner of the Buffalo Braves, called Fitz, who had me pick up the extension and listen in.
- Middlemas was excited by the simple kindness of his master, and poured forth his thanks with the greater profusion, that he was free from the terror of the emblematical collar and chain, which a moment before seemed to glisten in the hand of his guardian, and gape to enclose his neck. The Surgeon's Daughter
- Listen intently, and you'll hear the buzzing of mosquitoes, bees, and houseflies.
- Carried in abundant heavy bunches along its branches, they seem to glisten in early winter sunlight.
