He lay curled on one side, listening as Crane-man’s breathing slowed and evened in the rhythm of sleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Stay here. Are you listening to me? Do not leave this car.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At night I sit beside Sarah’s crib, watching the flutter of her eyelids as she dreams, listening to her breathe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are listening, analyzing, visualizing, sequencing, and applying concentrated brainwork to understand what they are singing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And Gram, sitting by the stream in her long cotton dress, her face lifted toward the sky, listening. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could tell by the back of her neck that she was listening. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Robert de Sorbonne smiled distantly, as if he were listening to an entirely different conversation. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She started back to her chair, stopped, whirled, and stood motionless, listening. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most times, that made no never mind to her—their talk was usually pretty dull listening. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he assured her that everything was as she wished it, she was content and lay listening. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But what I enjoyed most was listening to stories. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping out of Great Hall, he passed the time for a bit, listening with an ear to the ground in the company of the moles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I pull on her arms gently to make sure she’s listening. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed, his jaw slackened, as if he were listening to seraphic voices. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Two things that comforted me and quieted my worries, making everything wonderful, were being in church on Sunday and sitting all alone in my room listening to music. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We just sat there in my family’s flat, listening to the radio and watching the sky over Kraków turn black as the Germans came to kill us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I sat at the wooden worktable in the back of Ben’s wagon and chafed at wasting the day listening to him lecture me about things I already understood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I yawned and sat there in my underwear listening to Smitty go on for a while. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

They were accustomed to listening to him tell stories, though that usually happened after dinner, when the sky was dark and he could only see their faces by the flickering light of the fire. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I fall asleep most nights listening to Daddy snoring, but wishing for the sounds of an Alabama night. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Melanie was crouching behind an imaginary pillar, when suddenly she straightened up and stood listening. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After listening to the chief, the magistrate rapidly made out the necessary traveling documents and affixed the official stamp. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then for all the world like we were at testimonial time at the Baptist church with forty-five people listening besides God, he commenced to pray. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I get lots of visitors—a few of whom pay even without listening to a whole song. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at Hyzenthlay, heavy with young, who was sitting in the mouth of the nearest hole and listening to the talk. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, said to Darcy: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I knew by now that Ocean was really good at basketball, but I didn’t know just how good until I started listening. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stood impatiently listening, half listening, vaguely watching, then noticed his work-thickened fingers clutching the shovel. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people would call it impolite to always be listening to a man’s Noise,” I say, looking around me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She lay in bed looking at the sky, listening to the footsteps below, the voices muffled by walls and the sheets of rain punishing the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then Faber moved and put out his hand and grabbed Montag and moved him in and sat him down and went back and stood in the door, listening. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was crouching by the door, listening, and then they heard it, too: heavy footsteps hurrying toward the room. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I whispered the word offed in case anyone was listening to our conversation. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you not listening to me? I don’t want to ruin this, too. Not for you.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Crusty old alpinists who’ve survived a lifetime of close scrapes like to counsel young proteges that staying alive hinges on listening carefully to one’s “inner voice.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He woke in the night and lay listening. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She braced herself for him to turn around, to blow her cover, but he just stood with his back to her, his head tilted like he was listening to something. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She shivered for them, listening to their moans and cries. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Daniel pauses, looks around the forest like just maybe his mom came today and could be listening. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, listening, found sweet pleasure in the tale, among the Phaiakian mariners and oarsmen. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you listening? He’s too little to go so far.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because the rain the night before had made us hopeful, I think both of us did our chores with one ear to the sky, listening for the sound of engines. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, chickadee, are you listening or are you giving me the cold shoulder?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Big Dub spent every night with his ear pressed to his wife’s stomach, listening to the movements in her belly. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope you didn’t expect to get anywhere by listening to me,” said the voice gleefully. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re listening to “The Jack Benny Show” on the radio, which is punctuated by singing commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to pretend to be listening to music,” she said, “you should also pretend not to hear what I’m saying.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He took Pippin’s hand and bent over his face, listening for his breath; then he laid his hands on his brow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His daemon, the marmot, was not blank and incurious as the nurse’s dog had been, but sat politely on his shoulder watching and listening. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We ate our supper listening to the radio—something we had never done before; my father never liked to have the radio on during a meal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

While the grown-ups sit at the table, telling jokes and laughing, I go back to the baby’s room to spy on Rosa, listening to her breathe and let out little sighs as she dreams. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And like with listening, the subtle skim of a soul could be drowned out by a nearer, louder presence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio intoning the Nicene Creed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It boggles me trying to think how Julie managed to communicate all this with the Gestapo captain listening. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They're listening like Jessica is telling them the secrets of the universe, those funny, clever, precious secrets, the secrets that make them the chosen ones. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe heavily, listening until the laughter outside dies down. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She loaded them on her sled and returned to the river, listening to Tornait peep soft plover' songs in the warmth of her parka hood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie is watching me so I nod and try to look like I'm listening to more than silence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tiny quickly changes the subject, and I try to laugh at all the appropriate moments for the rest of lunch, but I'm not listening. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He’d tease her, gently, but he was always listening and always attentive. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His father had been patient with the old man, listening sympathetically, nodding, stroking his cheek as if he were preparing a diagnosis. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paused at every landing, listening for patrols. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I count and recount, wait another day, then another, listening to the inside of my body as if for a footfall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe in twenty years he’d be the mayor of New York and we’d all be in the audience listening to him talk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I made us a late breakfast, and we spent the rest of the day napping, playing cards, or listening to the radio in the living room. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lucinda and I wait in her room, listening at the door, tense with concentration. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, he said, “Bud, are you listening, Bud?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was sick and tired of her grandfather’s speeches, of listening to his arguments with her Uncle Jaime, and of endless electoral campaigns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody in Haiti been listening to those speeches.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm listening, but I can't hear anything except for Blade and his gang, and how they're scrambling around trying to find some rocks to heave at us. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over these she paused, for an extremely long time, as if she were listening to small, silent confessions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she just lies there with her eyes open, listening to the almost-silence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She dropped her gaze, listening to the easy rhythm of Jabir’s breathing. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not going to even listen . . “All right, I’m listening,” said Armpit. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about?” he asked quietly, but I wasn’t really listening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He lay a little while longer looking at patches of sunlight on the wall, and listening to the sound of a waterfall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The elderly gentleman who ran the cafe soon had me talking—or rather listening. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when she was watching the TV with one eye, I felt like she was really listening to me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Frodo did not prove very communicative, and he soon found himself sitting alone in a corner, listening and looking around. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project, or listening to Lord Jim through headphones, or when driving on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He spends his days cooking meals, reading, listening to classical music. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm tired of listening to this junk,” said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again Montag touched the volume control in the wall and the announcer was speechless. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranee sets out the plates while listening to Anu. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watched from a short distance as the shaman studied the koka plant intently, examining the leaf patterns and listening to their inner wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His glance went to M. Bouc and Dr. Constantine, who were listening attentively. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as we sat hunched just outside the door, listening to those first four letters, I felt my insides ball up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then they were forced to lie quiet, listening to the pounding of their hearts, in order to calm down a little. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Meggie lay with her eyes wide open, listening to the sounds outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stood listening to them; wondering what they were. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The energy I would normally use for thinking up what I was going to say went into listening hard and watching well, and I remembered everything. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the cellar for a week, listening to the Russians arrive and to the babies cry and to gunfire that went from the rooftops to the streets. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. . . Are you listening to me?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I weaved my way back through the house and found Drew on the sofa, listening to a woman explain that aspirin can cause infertility. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana spent a final peaceful moment on the hillside overlooking Milagro, listening to the magpies’ chatter and to roosters crowing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went upstairs where Al Gaines was listening to the radio. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How come you aren’t listening to me? My dad is here with half-men. Swank dressed, all of them. And he was talking about a ship.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sat for a moment half dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, but make sure you’re listening out for your events— the seventy meters is coming up.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then Dari started explaining why the cold magnet worked best—something about hot magnets having disorderly molecules—and Twig nodded along like she was actually listening. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He lay tossing and turning and listening fearfully to the stealthy night-noises: wind in chinks of rock, water dripping, a crack, the sudden rattling fall of a loosened stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to linger in bed in the morning, listening to the sounds of Otto playing with the boys downstairs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Father isn’t listening so I can say it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he huddled in the seat, looking down at the platform, listening to Carter explaining the rules of the crazy fight. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The heart responds by beating more quickly when listening to faster tempos, and slower when listening to slower tempos. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

After listening to Woolf and Pollard discussing strategy, David Alexander asked them if he could state in print that Seabiscuit would outgun War Admiral for the early lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start going through my flash cards, mostly so I don’t have to sit here and be awkward with Sam’s grandfather, who is definitely listening to every word Sam is saying to her mom. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It fell hard and clear into the listening group. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I'm afraid that no one is listening but they must be, because right away they're bringing her up out of the cellar and Iggy is running to her and crying out her name. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry slowed down a little, slipped his wand back inside his robes, and looked around, listening again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was now listening intently, completely absorbed, quite empty, taking in everything. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the country became more troubled, my father stopped listening to music, and singing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He, moreover, was convinced that he could tell a lot about any person by listening. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pa says many other things to Ma, but I stop listening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed Tracy—Mom—was standing in the doorway, listening to us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo saw that Madame Emile and Monsieur Frick had made their way into the office and were listening to everything. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She sat at her desk one afternoon, listening to the pitter- patter of the rain on the roof. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You must not have been listening in class today,” April said. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells dirty jokes sometimes when Dad isn’t listening, and we both crack up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She seemed to think that it was really helpful to lie in bed, listening to the radio and calling out weather reports. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The little boys fell asleep right away, but Jinjoo and her sister stayed up late listening to the sounds of the night all around them. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But nobody was listening to him, except my shadow and me in the bushes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there in court for three days listening while the evidence built up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon struggled after him, listening to the call of the brook, to the leaves sighing in the wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He looked around, listening intently as he approached the barrier, then dragged it over to the side of the road. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stand at the side of the room, half listening to Al and Christina’s chatter, and watch Molly fight Edward. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s voice died; he was listening to the echoes of his words in his own mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stared down the stairwell, listening for a new invasion of Germans, but everything was quiet and still. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mate closed his eyes, and Sefia realized he was listening to the ship, to the very timbers it was made of. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But after things settled down a bit, and I had dinner while listening to Johanssen's Beatles music collection, I got depressed again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my love, I’m listening. Go on. It’s marvelous.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Obsle’s attention had been taken up by his other neighbor, and most people were listening to Slose at the head of the table. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Come down to the tannery in the morning,” said Mr. Ames, and he closed the door firmly on the reeling caller and stood inside, listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in that tangled-up moment I could feel my friend looking into me, listening to my tortured tune, knowing my thoughts, knowing me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ma tugs at the straps of her bag and looks around to see if anyone’s listening. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She got so she could tell big stories herself from listening to the rest. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If I keep listening to you, Papa, I will die of starvation with food in my hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the next few minutes we stood under the moon-blanched trees, listening to the music blaring from the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Because I wouldn’t know any of that. Don’t mind me—I’ll just be over here listening to parents sobbing about their kidnapped kids.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t last very long, but while it went on the outside world was blotted out, and she seemed to be listening to the struggle in her body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, listening to the last twenty minutes, and it feels like Arthur is right beside me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo was lying on the bed in the living room, listening to the radio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was happy just reading a book or listening to music or walking around town with Libby Truett, his best friend. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I pictured Ambrose, listening to me glide through the most beautiful song he’d ever heard, and realizing I’m about to win my pipes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It filled him with sadness, coming here to give garri and fish to people who had fed themselves in the North, listening week after week to Master saying the same things. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I see the girl listening, and I begin to watch this girl, and I forget what I was talking about. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of our being together near the tree on that special day, listening to carols, really sparked romantic daydreams. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson sits on his stool listening to the Cardinals and Red Sox game on the radio behind the counter, an unlit cigar hanging out the corner of his mouth. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He moved his fingers on the strings, listening for the tone. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Madame had stopped in front of us, and was standing still, her back to us, again like she was listening. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand at the threshold, listening to my own breathing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Even more startling, people seemed to like listening to her and to be genuinely inspired by her arguments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Radios, maybe one per hundred thousand residents. No telephones. Newspapers as scarce as hen’s teeth, and a literacy rate made to match. They get their evening news by listening to their neighbors’ drums.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wretched place had been pushing Toby away for years, but now that there was someone else to think about, Toby found himself actually listening. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Then you have not been listening to me,” I replied lightly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But Malfoy said nothing: He was still listening to whatever was happening below and seemed almost as paralyzed as Harry was. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Not really. I picked up some stuff from just listening to my parents speak to my aunts and uncles, but I understand more than I can speak.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was thinking of listening to the psychologist’s advice and taking some time to get his own mask on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton’s face was held in an attitude of intense listening and her hands were hanging loosely at her sides. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lay awake most of the night listening to Rachel cough, the sound rasping and sawing through her own body. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a moment, listening to Spot. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After listening a moment longer, I realize that they’re planning to take the treacherous hidden trail out of the school and into Serra. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life, Tally found herself listening to a middle pretty without being completely reassured, a realization that made her dizzy. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to save animals,” I say again, but neither Windy nor Levi is listening to me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rushing sound in her ears as if she were listening to her own blood running far too fast through her veins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then we’d roll over and sleep again, always listening for the soft step of prisoners’ feet on the floor above to let us know when to come out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Baker was listening with great interest, but when Maxim had finished he shook his head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Our listening ears are a gift to them, my father says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But, pretty soon, I opt to just lie on my bed, looking up at the ceiling and listening to the wheezing sound of my breath ing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

My dad nodded at my mom, who was listening intently. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he didn’t want to get us into trouble, too,” I tell her, but I don’t think Jasmine's listening. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But everyone had the air, at least, of listening respectfully. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face turned away from me, my ear pressed to his chest, listening to his lungs settle into the rhythm of sleep. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The picture had not yet started and they sat listening to the pipe organ playing low and soft. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were out in the bedroom with the Mancinis, listening to the news, when there was a knock: the maid announcing that the Mancinis had visitors. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her nobleman husband lies sleeping in a nearby room, his head on his arm, as if listening to his heartbeat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a series of taps, jumps and rests, and demands careful listening, feeling and coordination. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s surprising—once you’re listening for it—how often people bring up dying to try to scare you. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A girl listening outside the door heard the clink and spread the word. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heather was gone—off at OSU, she was the real Buckeye, for God’s sake—but what she'd told me about listening had really stuck. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went on to tell him about my years before Mother died, games with Mother and Mandy, the taste of Tonic, listening to fairy stories. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although these exercises were developed for children with special needs, they are highly applicable in developing crucial musical listening skills and for helping children recognize categories of music, instruments, and timbre of sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So, I was listening to him talk and waiting for an opportunity to tell him—but he just kept talking and talking, and it was strange and tangential and boring. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They sat there together, listening to his mother scraping the plates, the water running in the sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I give his ears some perk, like he’s listening for something. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But nobody seemed to be listening to her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But did you say ‘told’ or ‘informed’?” he asked me, with his head on one side, and not looking at me, but looking in a listening way at the floor. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the other guys had their heads swiveled toward him, constantly watching him, listening to what he had to say. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dell managed to say: "I should probably get your home number. I mean, I have it in Quang-ha's files at the office, but I . . ." Pattie either wasn't listening or wasn't interested. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I do. I do. But not the way I do here. I don’t hear ghost sounds. I don’t stay awake listening to walking in the kitchen. I don’t hear the doors and windows unhinging.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied Tica with my hands and my heart, listening to the spirits around us and the new life growing inside her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he spoke to Auntie Idris about me, too, before I was awake and listening. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“I used to love watching him pick locks. Just the way he’d stand there listening to the lock like it was his favorite song. And then it would click.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I looked at the coffin and the marchers, listening to them, and yet realizing that I was listening to something within myself, and for a second I heard the shattering stroke of my heart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tough call—five dollars for listening to a Lionel Hampton record. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I saw Tommy was with them— he was standing with a shoulder against a post—and was listening to a donor who was sitting crouched on the entrance steps. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kids’ section where a whole bunch of mothers with little kids were listening to One Morning in Maine on tape, and they were warm. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head, listening, and grinned when the droning syllables of a song-chant reached his ears. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Here I am, sitting on the graying floor of this freezing metal kitchen, listening to a bunch of complaints from girls who don’t know how to boil an egg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was speaking slowly, as though each word had to count, and as though he were listening carefully to his own words. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s review the facts first,” Bookman said, and he wasn’t talking to the governor, but rather to Kyril Montana, who was sitting back comfortably with his hands folded under his chin, politely listening. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit there, listening to the gentle plunk of water smacking the bottom of the boat, looking out at the ocean that has opened itself before me, still and flat like black glass. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry lurked behind a low stone wall, feeling at peace with the world and listening to their conversation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We sat like that for hours, listening to the gunshots and the screams in the street, my younger cousins huddled next to their mothers, weeping on and off quietly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible that they could be listening to the sermon. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’m used to it, my brother and his friends say it all the time, when there are no adults listening. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his riding-in-silence comment, Coach was blathering on, probably telling me a story, but I wasn't really listening. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maddie cowered next to him, her arms over her head, listening to the hideous rattle of the gunner sucking air into blood-filled lungs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head, as if he were listening to music. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But as we stand over the gravestone she will share with Grandpa, listening to Ruth blow her nose, I imagine that the stone belongs to someone else. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want you listening to what we say!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After several days of listening, with their ears against the walls, they perceived the deep cloc-cloc. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just felt like someone else had to be listening. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You never know who’s listening to you in that house.You’re too young to understand much, and 1 wouldn’t say anything if you were a real boy.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know the technique, how to look blank and as if you are listening when really you are trying to fly away from your body. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Jermaine used to say that listening to Tupac was like listening in on the mind of every young Black man in the ghetto. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We have been listening to your talk about going out. We would like to go, too, but we cannot open our cages.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up hanging out together for hours, listening to music and talking. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

How much time do you spend listening to music through headphones? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I think you guys have some talking to do, so I’m gonna head out. Thanks for listening, Twinkle.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried listening to The Misanthrope and Fontaine's Fables, but they were just too dense for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“By any means necessary. Thanks for switching. I need to talk to the others, and the guards are always listening.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for listening to all that,” I say. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Gurgi, who had been listening silently, set up a long howl. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She sat in this room holding her son on her lap, staring at his closed eyelids and listening to the sound of his sucking. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron said I was stupid for listening to everything that Momma and Dad said, but if I was so stupid why was he the one who had a great big, bald, shiny, knotted-up head? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jealous?” said Malfoy, who didn’t need to shout anymore: Half the courtyard was listening in. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I’d felt it like an itch in my chest while listening to my grandfather’s extraordinary stories. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mistake is that I started listening too late. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned the entire second grade in advance just by listening to Annie— she was a year older than me—and by hearing Mama Sweetie read from her Bible and her Webster’s dictionary. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You can only act like a jerk so many times before people stop listening to you. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There's a song Hannah and I have been listening to in the mornings. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had tried to tell her that he was just trying to find the fire dancer, but she wasn’t listening and he had given up, thankful for the hugs and the silence. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie sat there listening to it, wiggling his ears this way and that, trying to catch all the words. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in soothing silence, listening to the leaden tick of the hallway clock and the barking of a nearby dog. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hear him stop outside the door, afraid to open it but still listening in. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Both nights, I lay there, watching the eyes of the shifting wolves glow like live mesquite coals in the firelight, and listening to the weak moaning bawl of old Spot still traveling in a circle. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know people are mostly clapping for Mrs. Peck, but it feels good standing in front of everyone, having them smile and cheer us on, listening to our every word. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Arthur is still sitting at the radio listening to Amos ’n’ Andy, not even paying attention to Sonny and Henry, who are tearing apart Jimmie’s dolly. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Mother, I’m sure of that,” said Meg, listening respectfully to the little lecture, for the best of women will hold forth upon the all absorbing subject of house keeping. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry knew that the people in the drawing room were listening for more noises from the cellar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He hardly slept the rest of the night, listening to the horrid rain and knowing that no matter how high the creek came, Leslie would still want to cross it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the next several years, he sat there, day after day, looking out over the lake, listening to the clock tick, waiting for the telephone to ring, hoping some business would materialize. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We leaned against her car, her talking, me listening. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Now, this is good English, the kind that you should be listening to,” he shouted from the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“This only goes to prove...that the intelligent people were all listening to a dummy, and all the dummies were listening to you.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The next morning Marly lay a long time, just listening. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And when Jan did speak his voice was low and there were long pauses between the words; it seemed to Bigger that he was listening to a man talk to himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A young man whose name Claire didn't know had been listening. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had heard others do this before, and I enjoyed listening because sometimes they were quite clever and ingenious. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My words are worth listening to, I think, and there is some wisdom in them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I'm listening to him up there and trying to see out that little window when something moves against the light. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Brow furrowed, Frank inclined his good ear still closer to the door, listening very hard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He stood perfectly straight, and inclined his head only slightly to indicate that he was listening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been listening to the story for three years. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had iPod headphones on, so I wasn’t sure he was even listening, but he gave me a thumbs-up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Want to talk without watchful ears listening to judge me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It took a long time to admit that I could no longer feel his presence and sometimes I lay awake until dawn listening desperately to the silence and trying to remember his face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is grainy and dark, so I know she’s in her room with the curtains drawn, probably listening to music really low. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But he sidled back about three feet anyway and pretended not to be listening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She asked the class what they wanted to study, but when they suggested ideas, she didn’t seem to be listening. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Adaon, who had been listening silently near the fire, shook his head. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He's listening patiently to one of his soldiers, but I see him study my face as if out of habit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Grandmère looked at me, to make sure I was listening—which, of course, I was. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I remember all those years in the woods, listening to Gale rant against the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking, actually, of how to get the rest of Mr. Randolph’s money and hadn’t been listening to the news broadcast. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I left the room and stayed outta sight, but I was still close enough for listening. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

All three of us crawled into bed, one beside the other, listening to the sound of a harmonica in the distance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dicey was listening, but she couldn’t hear their footsteps. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only question was why Ralph lay awake whole nights, listening to Helen asleep in the next bed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plucks the feeling right out of me, as if she's listening to my heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Tessie and I lay in our chairs, listening to wax being violently removed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were listening to the radio and muttering and shaking their heads. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat beside the water listening to the confused rush and roar of the Rapids hidden in the mist; they were tired and sleepy, and their hearts were as gloomy as the dying day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So close to normal, and then, just like that, we’re back to this new, terrible normal where I’m stuck inside my room crying, listening to her downstairs cleaning up my dishes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment that she might be the voice of my Aloine, but after a moment’s listening to her, I realized it couldn’t be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the cornets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty angry, too, to tell you the truth. But I want you to know this, Conor, it’s important that you listen to me. Are you listening?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Part of me was listening and part of me was imagining what the money would do to help my parents, what it would buy. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Probably he says some other stuff before he leaves, but I’m not listening. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

These exercises provide focal points for children’s active listening and response, working local listening. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Please, sir,” begged Sergeant Towser, sighing wearily, with a sidelong glance at the four baffled new officers listening in mystified silence just outside the entrance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her father hunches over his slanted ink-stained table by the window, sketching, smoking, listening to the Voice of America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We huddled on the bathroom floor listening to bombs fall in other parts of the city. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eleanor, listening outside the parlor door, heard the small irritating noises of Arthur settling down to be quiet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened her eyes and twisted to face him, he asked, “What you thinking on so hard, then, if you’re not listening to my excellent joke-telling?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to him to have been listening with extra-special intentness. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Anyone listening to us would dismiss our conversation as child’s play. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet it had been mainly a time for listening and, being a talker, I had grown impatient. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, me and Jay stood next to Mama and my uncle, Doc Buzzard, in that graveyard, listening to the pastor say lots of good things about Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“There it is. That’s what I was listening for. Let it ring. I’m not going to be led around by feelings. Let it ring.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Your mother and I just lost track of time listening to the radio. Did you have fun at the beach?" The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He lay on the concrete listening to the voices that surrounded him, voices that were either soft or distant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All that night it fell, warm rain, dripping from the eaves and pattering at my window, while I lay flat on my back with my eyes wide open, listening. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sophia had a hand up to her ear, and Moss could tell she was listening to something in her earpiece. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the whole time I was talking, Gloria Dump was listening. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had special permission to use the records, and the listening rooms too. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t care that her boy friend and three of his relatives are in the living room, listening. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After that, he found himself listening for her step. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed to the rear of the furnace and stopped, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dozing, listening to the whine of them around his head in the dark as they tried to find a way through the jacket, he thought, it was the way. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I crouch in the bedroom, in the dark, wrapped in Jon’s old sleeping bag, listening to the wheezing sound of Sarah breathing and the whisper of sleet against the window. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her pregnancy had elevated her, so she could sit idly listening to the radiogram, no longer Mama’s help but now the woman who would give birth to Mama’s grandchild. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"What if somebody else finds them? Crow? Are you listening to me, Crow?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s starting to feel like I shouldn’t be listening in on this. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I nodded my head to show Akhi that I was listening. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She lay there with her face to the wall, listening to her own heart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And now I was at Harper, listening to children talking about how to stay alive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung stood listening at the door to those heavy animal pants. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But for now, I sit listening to Nicholtown settle around me, pray that one day Roman will be well enough to know this moment. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’d pray for anyone, angel or demon, to keep me from being sick, but no one was listening or they didn’t care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking around to make sure no one was listening, Roberto whispered, “If we don’t get deported...” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A certain somebody lies awake for about fifteen minutes, listening to the sounds of the night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

No doubt, listening to the sisters plan to eat us, the men had been shaking in their blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was standing on the tracks, listening to death’s locomotive whistle, and he was very clear about the important things in life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d sit together for hours listening to the rhythm of the sea and the poems her mother recited as if in a dream. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Dad was traveling, I would find Mom listening to the music alone and crying. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I would be spared an afternoon of listening to Sals basketball. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

While they are performing their pattern, they are simultaneously listening and memorizing the new pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And for your listening pleasure, here it is. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Almost as much as I was hoping he’d been kidding about listening in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Leo took one last look at the console, listening to Festus chatter and whir a status report. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A minute or two later Mrs. van Daan came up from where she’d been listening to the radio and told us that Pim had asked her to turn it off and tiptoe upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’s frowning down at the Bundt and listening for a heartbeat. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anna smiled at all the lights, listening to the music from the drinking houses, the pianos, the phonographs, watching people, arm in arm, striding by in the crowded streets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could be back in the greenhouse listening to the gray-faced professor drone on about his plants. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She swung along, not even listening to the voices of alarm and the cries of the deweys. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger sat very still, listening and not listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I felt as if Mrs. Moss might be listening outside the door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most people agree that the appreciation of art music requires some study, careful listening, or other extra effort. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He walked in the weird misty fog listening to the students around him chatter like mockingbirds. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m quiet for a minute, pretending I’m listening to Mike talk about the development of cannons. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be listening intently, but not necessarily to his words. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Jay and I huddled together, listening to the banging and the rattling of the lock. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Montag felt the presence of someone beyond the door, waiting, listening. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy obeyed his aunt, but all the time he was listening for any sounds to come from the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He was listening, Nels knew; his tired demeanor shielded an active mind from view. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lay awake in a funk nearly all night with Paul’s dratted gun in my hand, my ear pressed to the trapdoor listening, expecting him to come back and try again under cover of darkness. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He stood there for a minute, just listening, staring, and thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At that moment from far off the wind bore to their listening ears the howling of wolves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or they might saunter over to the Corner and join the crowd listening to the men with the long-distance eyes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He therefore started taking the egg out of his trunk every time he went up to the dormitory, opening it, and listening intently, hoping that this time it would make some sense. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But Archer was no longer listening to him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And so she listened on, listening for so long that some of what Ralph had to say almost made sense. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at the white-haired old man leaning over like he was listening for the plant to answer him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Cockerell had forgotten his knife and the tongues he was supposed to cut out and was listening with a faraway expression on his face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Spassky had moved to the seat next to him and was listening to Bobby’s analysis. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius chewed with a blissful savagery, studying the scar on the man’s nose and listening to his whistling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Dr. Malone will hear you out. Mary, there’s no harm in listening, for goodness’ sake. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa was talking and Mr. Little was listening and nodding every now and then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie back, listening to the buzzing lights and staring at the square tiles of the dropped ceiling. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, I certainly don’t have to sit here listening to you,” Ignatius said, putting on his suede boots. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nightmare of me crouching somewhere listening to the enemy above. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sniffing the scuffed horsehide aroma of the ball, rippling the fingertips over the red stitching — it’s hard to say how these things can make the listening better, but they do, and, for Maniac, they did. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him what happened, what animal had hurt him, but he wasn’t listening. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I fold back the blanket, quiet, listening, stretching my legs to the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His parents began arguing then, but Wash stopped listening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, my father must not have been listening. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She didn’t answer or open her eyes, but she’d stopped humming, so I knew she was listening. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie awake until dawn, listening to Queenie snore and feeling utterly miserable. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Glenn Seaborg, the discoverer of element 94, was relaxing in his room at the Faculty Club, listening to a football game on the radio. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I hold my finger over the button, listening to the soft hum in the speakers, the faint squeak of the spindles winding the tape, waiting for her voice to return. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He spent the entire afternoon of the second day looking out over the desert, and listening to his heart. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dante was saying something but I wasn’t really listening. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I would stay awake at night, even after the candle was snuffed, listening for any strange sounds that might suggest eating. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person’s probably thinking the exact opposite of what they’re saying but says something nice in case Jesus is listening in. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For example, begin with a fun rhythm activity to get students going, and finish with a quiet relaxing or listening activity to calm them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Inspired by listening: Teaching your curriculum while actively listening to music: Strategies for all teachers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He walked briskly back to his hole, and stood for a moment listening with a smile to the din in the pavilion and to the sounds of merrymaking in other parts of the field. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We kids were downstairs lying in our boxes, listening to them fighting upstairs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the papyrus the ibises were sleeping, or perhaps they were awake and listening to him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t enjoy it, and for the first time I found myself thinking about the words of the song, closely listening to the subtle instruments in the beat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Poe sighed and looked down at Sunny, who was biting a fork and listening closely. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

None of the people who could hear him were actually from his regiment, except for Roland Weary, and Weary wasn’t listening. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It delighted him that they thought he was unconscious and did not know he was listening. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He come home to find Shiloh there, he just stands off to one side, listening to what Doc Murphy said about him; he don’t get close enough for Shiloh to take a lick. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder Hideo isn’t listening to my advice—I look half crazy. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard and uncomfortable, but I fell asleep easily, listening to Judy’s quiet snoring. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be ignoring them as he packed Dustfinger's things back in the bag, but she felt sure he was listening to every word they said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He dropped a pan he was holding and jumped up, listening. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t been there listening, so I’m interested in what you have to say.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Or I can look at whoever I’m talking to but shift my attention so that I’m listening to Kat. “It’s an exercise in selective attention.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He just sat, holding Security on his lap and listening, and if he had any theories about mysterious powers or hidden watchers, he kept them strictly to himself. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame went on standing there, hardly moving in the low sun, her head tilted as though listening for some sound from the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was okay with it really, but still, it wasn’t a big thrill hanging out alone in my room for most of the night, listening to my parents’ off-key bickering caroling up the stairs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes by the small clock built into die dashboard he tried to radio with a simple message: “I need help. Is there anybody listening to me?” Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were my favorite days of the year, even better than playing in the marsh or listening to Miss Watson. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself lying flat on the floor, still and silent, listening to the sharp chirp of crickets in the field. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Father and I sat quietly the whole way, listening to Mama chatter on about anything she could think of. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She would tell them about parents who came to comfort their children when nightmares woke them, and they would all go still and quiet, listening with a terrible intensity. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The boy rode along through the desert for several hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without Theresa and Ralph knowing, she spent large parts of her afternoons listening to the radio, or reading the magazines she kept under her mattress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

While these scents reached them they were also listening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had stopped listening at the curving road. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom has the phone to her ear when I walk in the kitchen, but she isn’t listening to it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

How faint she felt, just listening to the stories other girls told — about a neighbor’s daughter, for example, who walked all the way home from Hangzhou, only to be sent back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In and out, it was like listening to the wind through the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Ain't I been listening to your stomach rumbling- bumbling for the last hour? Do me the kindness of filling the kettle at the pump. Soon as the potatoes are boiled up, we'll feast, eh?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hate listening to people chew, especially crunchy things. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On December 17, while listening to a radio play, Sourmelina removed her earphones and announced that she was having pains. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Why you always listening to that old stuff?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I don't like listening to the couple argue. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Over at table two, three kids are listening to something on a pair of earbuds. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And has this woman command, then?” asked Wang Lung, listening closely. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was more like listening to circus music than to talk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bounded down, no one challenging me, and I stopped in the vestibule, breathing deeply and listening for his hand upon the door above and brushing my clothing into order. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were both quiet in the dark, listening to each other breathing. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The same song I was listening to that first time I talked to Nora in the elevator. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No great collector of music, I started off my life in Paris by listening to American books on tape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He paused to look around, making sure they were all listening. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s not worth listening to or getting upset over. He just wants to make everyone else as miserable as he is.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My fingers are trembling from typing and from listening to Gretchen’s words. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No listening to forbidden broadcasts, with certain exceptions, i.e., The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had been there the whole time, camouflaged, watching, listening, and with all the animals looking at her she decided to introduce herself. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re not allowed to cry,” I tell her as harshly as I can, hoping my tone will scare her into listening. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But listening to Auntie Lin tonight reminds me once again: My mother and I never really understood one another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listens but can’t hear her breathe, so he puts his head to her chest, listening for a heartbeat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She sort of blushes when she sees me there by the refrigerator, listening to her sing. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father was over yonder trying to get people to pray for salvation, and no one listening to him either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year, however, my mom and dad would be cancanning it around Paris instead of listening to the bang of our American drums. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Around Small’s, I’m always working or hanging around listening to the hustlers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long after she fell asleep, I lay awake in the next room, listening to her peaceful exhalations. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still remembered shivering in a dark corner of that dilapidated mansion, listening to the Cyclopes mimicking her friends’ voices, trying to trick her into coming out into the open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As usual, we’ve taken the long way home so we can catch up without anybody listening to our conversation or telling us what chore we have on our list that day. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Harley was looking down the road with his head turned slightly to the side, listening to something. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday evening everyone, except Pim and me, was clustered around the radio, listening to the “Immortal Music of the German Masters.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend, is he?—Poor Eliza!—to be only just tolerable.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The discomfort of her telling, the discomfort of me listening. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As I sat there listening to his speech, I realized he actually cared about us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had loved listening to the men on the benches too; to freeriders tough as leather, courtly knights and bold young squires, grizzled old men- at-arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To be able to talk to him without every inbred hellspawn in the Flats listening. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We’ve got to be reasonable about everything we do here: studying, listening, holding our tongues, helping others, being kind, making compromises and I don’t know what else! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The other men sat around slumped into their own sorrows, listening to the Nigerians trade their stories, sometimes laughing, sometimes self-pitying. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had eyes for nothing but the Shadow as he stood there listening to Meggie’s voice, as if she were telling him a long-forgotten tale. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Polly would snuggle on her mother’s lap and fall asleep listening to the rhythm of her voice as she read. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many other researchers before him, Gordon realized we are lacking in terminology to explain all of the complex processes that go on with music learning and listening. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Harry suddenly noticed that every single one of the old headmasters and headmistresses in the portraits around the walls was awake and listening in on their conversation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At some point in the future, she knew from listening to the second-year students, she would begin to take pleasure in her competence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She heard more, felt more in some way, and I realized with a start that she was listening to every word, every single word. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she at the club, listening to trance music, and some hot girl is like, whispering in her ear? Right before she goes into the club?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He adds: “Reggie was the only person I took advice from. “He was a listener, and after he did the listening part he would have something to say that was probably in my best interest.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We walked for almost an hour, just listening, enjoying being close to each other without the distraction of the others and the reminder that we were so much less than before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Bass is the perfect instrument for me; you can barely hear it if you don’t know what you’re listening for, but the song wouldn’t be the same or even half as good without it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He waited without sleeping, listening to the aroused crickets in the endless hours of early morning and the implacable telling of time by the curlews, more and more convinced that he had been deceived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had brought listening gear from his car; he set it up, now, a revolving detek-snout with blip screen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Picturing her sitting there at the kitchen table with both hands around her mug of tea, listening to the answering machine message. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She keeps her hands on the bird, all the while listening, watching, until the zipper closes in around her forearms. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Back home I almost never heard it unless Mom spoke it or happened to be listening to something in Spanish. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

First off, to everyone listening, I doubt Tyler will let you see the pictures he took of me giving Courtney a backrub. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mama doesn’t seem to be fully listening, and I can imagine her acting surprised when Mustafa mentions this later. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

An hour later, breathing the same hot air under the comforter in and out, listening to the rattle of the air vent, I thought about the other significant thing about turning ten. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An older woman had given me a tall glass of sweet iced tea as I sat there listening and responding to questions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If the Endurance does have to, well, get left behind, we will manage, somehow,” Worsley said, listening to the howling of the gales outside. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be listening to any of it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay motionless, still listening; but all was now silent, and at last he turned and fell asleep again or wandered into some other unremembered dream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d sit up listening to crickets and frogs and on some nights to the radio at his bedside. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Doc Mom, sitting with her arm around me and listening and crying, that made words too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I know what they will draw: skipping ropes, jolly snowmen, listening to the radio, playing with a dog. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I smile, listening to them go back and forth. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Black brothers, northmen, free folk, Thenns, queen’s men, all of them fell quiet, listening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Are you listening to him? We didn’t decide anything. If he wants to find a place he can go ahead and live there alone,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I’ve snuck out of my room and sat on the steps to my trailer, listening to the night, gazing up at the stars, dreaming. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the books, listening to everyone talking all loud behind me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She paused, listening to the sound of some distant partygoer screech in laughter. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been able to stop myself from listening. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1993, a study by Rauscher et al. was published, which looked at the possible correlations between listening to different types of music and intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked steadily for a long time, listening with raised ears and wrinkling his nose in the unmoving air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved in the straw uneasily, listening to some secret movements in the room below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I know he hears me, the only thing JB is listening to is the sound of his heart bouncing on the court of love. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

That summer, right up until the warm weather faded, we developed this odd way of listening to music together in the fields. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the yellow reflectors in the middle of the road down the hill, listening for cars and serial killers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He sat outside of the cockfights every day, listening as though it were a kind of music, shooing away his wife with spells that never worked. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I find myself listening for her footsteps down the hallway whenever she’s been out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hand and went on over the hill, listening to the car. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reed ran his fingers through his thick brown hair, listening to the waves wash against the hull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’d sit there listening to him and carrying on a rapid conversation. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up slowly, holding his breath, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Twinkle. The water is a conductor of the heavens. I’m listening for messages.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Carl had tried listening into the fog, but the thrum of his own engines masked all other sound, and he had to shut down and drift. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was worse than Harry could ever have imagined, sitting there and listening. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even though listening was about the best thing that Branwell had been doing lately, he hardly looked at me the whole time I talked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What?” she called, turning back briefly, but she wasn’t really listening. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony was listening out for footsteps on the landing, and it was to distract herself that she attempted a conversational tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of being in Dr. K’s office, listening to music and writing down my thoughts. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the tub, I sat for a long while without moving, without thinking, listening for what I knew I would not hear elsewhere in the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe on a night when she was feeling really lonely and just needed to get things out of her head, even though no one was listening. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It gets cold so quickly here.”Turner nodded, listening to her as she closed the door on the town and disappeared into the house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wait in the strange darkness of my make-believe yard, listening for the silence that will allow me to escape to where I belong. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

All through his watch he caught himself listening for Prince’s footstep or his voice. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was just one person next door, listening, that person rushed to the student’s aid 85 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except I had to keep listening really hard all the time so I would hear his van when he pulled up outside the house so he wouldn’t catch me being a detective. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he loved listening to music, any music, and he liked to sing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I been listening many a nighttime long,” said Florence, then, “and He ain’t never spoke to me.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I remember kicking it there solo, listening to my pop preaching about the army, staring at all the black scuff marks his boots left on the court. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bull awoke and tried to identify the plane by listening to its pitch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uriah and Zeke are there, throwing pebbles off the roof and listening for the clatter when they hit the windows. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jessie retrieved her list of things to do for Christmas Eve dinner and examined it while listening to the sounds of her family awakening upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I crouched low to the ground, listening and watching, when suddenly a fat green frog hopped in front of me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If you will indulge me by listening, I would be most grateful. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or for listening to industrial music or wearing odd clothes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gotten so lost in telling the story she had forgotten people were listening. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

On a bench along the left wall sit a pair of grimy listening decks the size of bed pillows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After listening to the broadcast, I read the play over several times, each time trying to imitate the voices on the radio. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people listen they make a listening noise. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I picked up the sunglasses and kept walking, listening for her, but everything was quiet now. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They sat in the bottom of the hopper, listening to the train’s noises fade away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He sat on a bench, drinking coffee and smoking, reading poetry and listening to rain pound the canvas roof. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was listening for something, listening for exactly where I’d started to go wrong. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been listening to the Little Tomato playlist a lot,” I told him. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She says us, but no one else is listening, except maybe Levi. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler had stood hatless at the Olympic site that afternoon, listening quietly as Werner March explained that the horse-racing track adjoining the old stadium prevented a major expansion. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He went on, but I wasn’t listening anymore. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buffalo boy’s friend had her eyes closed toward the sky, as if listening to the wind. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Augur closes his eyes, as if listening harder, before opening them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was anticipating what June would say to that, when Neil came through the door without warning and caught me pressed against the wall listening to their most private sayings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a Fourth Bee,” I say really loud, so everyone who might be listening can hear me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I squat, listening behind me for bears, aster leaves rough on the tops of my legs, then bury the toilet paper under sticks and bark and dried bracken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them, listening to their talk, he found himself sometimes resentfully wishing that he had never brought them together. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cold would be torture enough, but the real nightmare is listening to Cato, moaning, begging, and finally just whimpering as the mutts work away at him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d been listening diligently for the DJs code about when the march would take place, and the day had finally arrived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a concert, and I can hear it by listening just right. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That was how Úrsula learned of the death of her mother, as a simple consequence of listening to the songs in the hope that they would say something about her son José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They walked behind them for about twenty minutes, not speaking, listening hard for noises other than breaking twigs and rustling leaves. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Dancing Fan was still dancing, its rubber feet beating out the same syncopated Persian rhythm I’d been listening to all night, but that wasn’t what woke me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They wore suits and ties and sat upright listening to us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And when he was not sitting enchanted listening to his mother’s words, he thought of airplanes, and pilots, and the deep sky that held them both. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The lock clicked and the door swung open — they piled through it, shut it quickly, and pressed their ears against it, listening. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And when someone spoke to him, he sat just as still and attentive, listening with his eyes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I stood and listened, just for a minute, like a hungry robin listening for worms. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One day we were listening to a CD of a musician named Horace Silver, and Dad says, Josh, this cat is the real deal. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Today at lunch Aaron was trying to, as usual, convert me to listening to his alternative heavy metal bands. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I brushed the lever lightly, listening as the hydraulic cylinders hissed softly to protract. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I was listening to him tell us about how he fought against discrimination in the South, I couldn’t help but remember the night that my brother got shot, purely based on our race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are members of the crew reclining in velvet chairs, sipping neon-bright martinis with faraway eyes, and listening to a live band that plays smooth jazz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I began answering questions and listening to comments and testimonials about Walter, the town, race, the police, the trial, and the way the whole family was now being treated by people in the community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentively to their conversation. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a way of listening on the spiral stairs, during the times when they were excluded from their mother’s interest. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry lay listening to the muffled shouting next door and wondered why he didn’t feel more scared. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I like just listening, just loafing on the grass. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The riding figure sat quite still with its head bowed, as if listening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We said it to each other at home, one chanting, one listening. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks as if she’s listening to a sound, outside the house perhaps, but there is no sound. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When I first heard, 1 was in my room listening to tapes and my momma said someone just got thrown out the window. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that I stop listening and start to really breathe fast. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

From Elizebeth’s decrypts, the FBI knew she was listening to spy networks in Brazil. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

August and I wait outside, listening to passionate entreaties and tongue clicks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I stood for a moment outside the morning-room, with my hand on the door, listening to the hum of voices. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Next time you are listening to your favorite song or your favorite piece of music, don't hum along with the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“This is what we were listening to on the drive to Nashville. I knew you’d want a copy.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She has a vague smile on her face, as though she’s listening to distant music. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I meant your reading to me, Matty, and my listening. It’s my favorite time of day.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It required mapping strategy and listening to your neighbors and building trust in communities where trust was often lacking. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’s listening to the Papi stories as if he’s never heard them before. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He sat quite still, anger still surging through him, listening to the frantic thumping of his heart. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If she would have just shown me she was listening, even a little... Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Nobody sees me. Besides, he was busy listening to the wind.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stumbled to a halt, clutching at the stone wall, listening with all his might, looking around, squinting up and down the dimly lit passageway. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He was listening to a tiny, fox-faced lady whom I knew to be a housekeeper in the dorms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I inched a little closer, trying to pretend I wasn’t listening. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

For despite how well he spoke, how perfectly he moved through the sounds of his words, I kept listening for the errant tone, the flag, the minor mistake that would tell of his original race. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was standing right under the trapdoor, listening to us and waiting for the stovepipe hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up with a start, lit the lamp, and sat listening to the strange excited beating in my heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agents fanned out across the country, tailing unsuspecting government officials, listening in on private phone calls, opening mail, and photographing the men and women named in Elizabeth's confession. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I resisted thinking by listening to the sound of the forest as songs of birds collided with the shouting of monkeys and the cackle of baboons. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine his face as he sits there, listening. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then Bertha told us about some woman in the grocery store who fainted in the cereal aisle but I wasn’t really listening because I was thinking about Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Poppet and Widget slip tastes of appropriate morsels to the marmalade kittens at their feet, while listening attentively to Mme. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I found myself listening with my eyes as well as my ears, noting the slight movements. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The blind man went to the window and stood there listening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed, listening to her putter around in her bedroom. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he hung by his armpit from the cross spar, bleeding and listening into the fog, working his knife from its sheath. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Why am I listening to you?” she went on. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I was praying as much as listening intently—trying to judge the success of my petition from every pause and inflection in Pefta’s voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seem to remember that you had a high tolerance for listening without melting down over the content.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After listening to my mom’s account of Rosa Parks’s protest, I thought about the power she had. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, haven’t you been listening? / saw me but I thought I was my dad! It’s okay!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wait until she is asleep, listening for the soft snore, the pucker of her forehead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rain wiping it off our faces and listening to its sound on the tile roof and the gushing of torrents onto the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He went to the door and looked out, listening. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, instead of saying Ashoke’s name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as “Are you listening to me?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put the kids to bed, then sat and read, listening to classical music. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goose had been listening to this conversation and chuckling to herself. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fool’s listening for the dial tone again, in case someone tries to call. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“No problem. But you know, Joaquin just probably needs less people talking to him and more people listening to him.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Duke knows the microchip is really a listening device. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Peralta sat on a small plastic stool in the doorway, listening. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Or no—onstage but also in the audience, watching and listening. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed for a while, listening to Isaac breathe and the wind knot around the bare branches outside. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I loved that no one could tell I was listening to music and that, because no one knew, I was never asked to turn it off. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

To prove it, he used a trick he had devised to discover whether his children were listening when they begged him to read to them and would not let him stop. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from replaying the tune on your own instrument, how could you prove you were really listening? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone fell quiet, listening, lost in their own thoughts. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She recalled lying down on the comforter, looking out at the trees, listening to the river roaring endlessly below, wondering if the noise would eventually go from soothing to unbearable. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We waited, listening for the sound of the man’s footsteps on our porch. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the little boy she could see more ghosts, dozens, hundreds, their heads crowded together, peering close and listening to every word. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now, listening to Leon sounding as if the school was embarking on the Crusades, for crying out loud, Archie was doubtful. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I’m sitting under Mrs. Purcell’s window listening to Macbeth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Always listening to the emotions of others, always feeling their petty yammering on your nerves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Joe a series of questions, listening carefully to his answers, all the while peering down at the man, pale blue eyes behind little round lenses. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care whether anyone was listening to him or not. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I move closer I discover he’s listening to the radio. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s sitting in the middle of the front row, that’s where the Seeker...Never mind,” said Harry, realizing that nobody was listening: Ron was on his hands and knees, searching under the wardrobe. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Tell the story, old man. She’s listening,” the voice spoke again. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was really listening to the men’s conversation, watching for any sign that Billy was about to rat me out, trying to think of ways to stop him if he began. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Day wasn’t working the night shift, he and Henrietta spent evenings at home, playing cards and listening to Bennie Smith play blues guitar on the radio after the kids went to sleep. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Farid was used to listening to the sounds of the night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly he came to where she was sitting at the table, though she could see from his face that he was still listening to the noise of the construction below. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After listening to this CD, it’s easy to see where Boy21 is coming up with his weird philosophies and costumes. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every graduate of Lincoln Elementary School for the past thirty-five years could remember standing at that table listening to Mrs. Granger’s battle cry: “Look it up. That’s why we have the dictionary.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, I know that, she thought, listening, smiling, to the faint melody; we used to play that game; I remember that. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on his side for a moment, then pulled a rasping breath in and held it, listening for the attacker to return. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, after listening to me read the first few chapters of The Hoboken Chicken Emergency to Henrietta, to see what she thought, he went inside to explain it all to Mom. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And listening to Taylor Swift,” Bianca adds, talking around her thumb. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson stood on the floating dock, listening to the lake water lap at the shore, watching them go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were talking and I sat there, trying to listen to their conversation but not really listening at all, just thinking about things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a mess hall, and two cooks sitting listening to the radio got coffee for us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like everything I imagined for myself last night while I was alone in bed and Arthur was on the phone listening with me, except we’re really together this time. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I recorded some of my songs for you. In case you feel like listening to something different on your drive. The song ‘Lydia’ is on it.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He wished with all his heart that he had not crouched listening at the hall door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sit up in our bed all night sometimes, listening to my brother as he told me about the other worlds he could see. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The yellow bull grazed in open view, but the speckled cows stayed in the juniper, listening like deer to Tayo’s approach, their spotted hides blending into the sandy talus of the big mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She began to lie awake listening for the awful sound, until finally, she knew she must send the child away— anywhere, just so she was not breathing this poison air. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was fumbling in his pockets for something, listening to me as I told him everything that had happened since I walked into the kitchen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Werner heard the voice everyone was listening for, and what did he do? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spin around to face the piano, glad to be doing something other than just sitting, listening, and worrying. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Day after day, listening to this endless prattling—she would rather be governess to a whole pack of actual wolves than suffer through that. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He’s no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Any storyteller worth listening to knows this is so. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my bed, headphones over my ears, listening to a song that reminded me of Dad and home. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

From the window of the listening post in the Howard Johnson’s, McCord’s assistant watched the Watergate building through a pair of binoculars. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Con, who had been listening to the two of them silently until now, interrupted: “You can’t go alone. I’m coming with you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s an architectural tour, but no one is listening to the guide. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Amaka was in the bedroom, lying in bed, listening to music with the cassette player next to her ear. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

James tilted his head to the side as if he were listening to his cowlick’s reply. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for the orange,” I whispered, in case anybody from school might be listening in. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever she’s listening to must be amazing to cause her to lose herself right there in the middle of the sidewalk in New York City. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I move a little like Tuerto when he crosses the street, cautious and listening for sounds as I go to the back yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I’m always listening, watching, thinking in secret. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s okay with God that we’re listening to jazz and we just came out of church?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When listening to music, sound vibrations enter the auditory cortex and are instantaneously broken down into elements of pitch, timbre, spatial relations, and tone duration. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“First Lady came to me yesterday after service, said her and Pastor’s grandchildren been listening to some ol’ garbage that Brianna recorded,” Grandma says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I forgave Kia for his mistake and apologized for yelling at him, and returned to my favorite hobby: lying in bed and listening to depressing songs that perfectly captured my longing and despair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d thought nothing could be worse than listening to him drone about the proper inflections of my vowels; now I’m starting to wonder if I was mistaken. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The voices were so loud that we Liars came up the walkway from Red Gate and stood at the foot of the garden, listening. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One night, they were sitting in the living room listening to the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pressed my ear against his chest, closed my eyes, and prayed, really prayed, for the first time in my life, to whatever god was listening. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They burrowed into a thick pile of straw and for some time remained listening for rats. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine the difficulty of listening to, and then accepting, a truth that overturns everything you believe about the world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his head from his paws, listening, sniffing at the night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Harry stood very still, one leg still jammed tightly in the magical step, listening. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

‘I have thought of something better than that. Something to shut your mouth, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry stood listening to him going down the stone steps beyond it, then, slowly, he started to climb the marble ones. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I learn little about language and intimacy listening to those social activists who propose using one’s family language in public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had always warned her not to use a knife to open a can, but Nancy Jaax had never made a point of listening to her father’s advice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood with the loaf of bread in his hands, his legs wide apart, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes and ears were very keen, and often there was a listening look on his face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I suggest souse,” remarked George, who had been listening to the conversation from across the room. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m listening to myself chew, when Jude’s foot finds mine under the table again. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When we got to the Big House, we found Chiron in his apartment, listening to his favorite 1960s lounge music while he packed his saddlebags. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fish looked up from the puddle with a frustrated expression that meant “I tried, but no one was listening.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t you tell me you weren’t even listening.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was the realest part of all the summer—her listening to this music on the radio and studying about it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The two of them were speaking sometimes, as the words came to them, between spells of listening to the evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys chuckled after listening to the shrill cry of the infant. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

James McCord, a former CIA technician now working with the Plumbers, set up a listening post in a room of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You were right. I’m sorry I doubted you. This is fun, much better than being inside the apartment, listening to my mother complain about how lazy I am.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then we have a looonnnnng assembly and watch Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which you know by heart from listening to it fifty-eleven times at home. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She slid her arms under mine and rested her cheek against my chest like she was listening to my heartbeat. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She lay sucking her thumb and listening to the conversation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after a long interval of listening, “Ford in Flivver!” he swore. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience of witches was listening intently, sensing that something dramatic was about to happen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Amil’s chest puffed up and he nodded proudly, listening to every word. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I find my mom and dad in the family room, my dad listening to music on his headphones, my mom grading papers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost impossible for a real musician to do anything worth listening to anymore. Now it’s all I-don’t-know-what.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jairo understood as he drove that he needed to stop listening to crazy guys yell at each other on sports radio and start thinking about something that had consequences that were real and important. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All three daemons were alert, scouting around corners ahead, watching behind, listening fin-the slightest footfall. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the cluster of houses behind, I looked up at the moon and tried listening to her sighs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sheriff did not appear to be listening at all. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer drew deeper under the dock, listening to the tramp of feet. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to my feet and stood listening for a moment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I pictured his cot with his shoes sitting under it, how he was prob-ably lying awake this very moment watching the ceiling, listening to the other boys breathe. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Garden had been packed, and two thousand people had stood on the street outside, listening to the speeches over loudspeakers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone got to bring whatever digital entertainment they wanted, and I was tired of listening to Johanssen's Beatles albums for now. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prayed and prayed, listening to the embers crumble, certain she would never be able to sleep this entire night. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After listening carefully for the sound of dogs or hunters and hearing nothing but the burping of bullfrogs, Amari signaled that they should ease out of the mire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits could hear no movements, and after listening for a while they set off eastward at a steady pace. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As long as somebody’s listening, it doesn’t seem to occur to her to wonder whether they’re interested. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Armpit was lying there, his eyes closed, only half listening, when he suddenly heard her sing: These shoes, these jewels, this dress, A perfect picture of success. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Or they could have been at Clairmont, listening to the aunts argue and eating beach plum jam on water crackers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

General Matsika said they all had been listening to Praise too long, and it made them blind to real problems. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Boys who are hiding secrets, girls who can barely stand to see daylight—he has devoted his life to listening to us and giving us a space to make our statements. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ahmed was in and out, giving instructions to the server, listening in on conversations and adding a line or two. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I needed him, another person, the heat of him listening. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped eating and seemed to be listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chris and I stopped joking and lay still, listening through the walls. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By listening to them talk I accumulated a vocabulary of the road, of tires and springs, of overweight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking down at the ground, a palm pressed against the wire-mesh fence, and for a moment he looked like he was listening intently to the sound of the traffic somewhere beyond the fog. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Ruth the elephant was the only one listening, my hands were still trembling. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I prayed that the door would hurst open and he would be there saying, “Sorry, Borlock, I wasn’t listening. What did you want?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve been staying in the back, keeping to myself and listening, and trying to decide if this club is a good fit for me after all. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was lying on the bed, listening to his Walkman. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both Ted and the doctor beamed at me then, and I admit I sat up a little straighter, started listening a little harder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to tell Char I don’t think I want to do this, but she ain’t listening. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then, as she stood there, listening—a cold, clammy hand touched her throat—a wet hand, smelling of the sea.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I’m watching his lips move more than listening. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The scene switches yet again to Hideo lying in bed, curled up, silent, listening to the faint crying of his mother coming from his parents’ bedroom. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

DeShon is still listening to his music, his head nodding, jerking. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mamá must have been listening, because she walked in and broke my silence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I often forgot myself in my watching and listening. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I stop listening to the voice rolling along in my earbud. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar went back to his high, carved chair, relinquishing the bowl to the noblest of his thanes, and sat like an old man listening inside his mind to the voices of his childhood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He must be listening to us. I’m talking to you, Dennis.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree and stone, blade and leaf were listening. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was alive with energies she hadn’t yet teased apart, but one of them was waiting and listening. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I laid there with my hands folded behind my head, listening to her talk and explain herself and tell me why she had done what she had done. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“This year I’ll be paying special attention because I know the scenes so well. I’ll be listening especially for this scene, with the buildings falling.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie in the kitchen had become so interested that she forgot that she wasn’t supposed to be listening. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been listening to them as they came down the road, the dogs and the horses, and seen the lanterns since it was dark now. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were other people on the porch, but nobody was listening to us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the telephone and rang the little bell and waited, looking at the floor and listening. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Distant lightning flickered in her words as she spoke, and the forest was hushed, as if every leaf and every tree were listening intently to what she said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry to startle you. What were you listening to? It’s beautiful.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I can feel the audience listening, hanging on my words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful, listening to Grandpa cough and hack and moan. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Most of us are well aware of the fact that we can hear something without really listening to it or understanding it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I am listening, I thought, to the cacophony of my digestive tract. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stays in bed a long time, listening while I explain what I need to do next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now, when Nat taught the rest of the crew, Lem stood listening. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up listening to the work songs of the black women shucking oysters at the J. S. Darling processing plant that wafted up to the pedestrians on the Queen Street Bridge above. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After we got tired of listening to records, we went back downstairs to go outside and sit by the pool. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Vega had been listening to me tell my story. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit like this for a while, listening to the birds chatter in the trees and watching the gentle waves lap against the shore. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s watching me, listening to me like he’s never listened to anyone so closely before. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“No, no, it was my fault, I’m afraid. I kept your boy here listening to the wanderings of an old lady.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

X-Ray was afraid the Warden might have been listening. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And Genie was just listening and listening until Ernie finally stopped. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I moved around the room listlessly, listening to him type, taking in the room’s stale smell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Frightful “waits on,” listening for her name, the signal for her to drop to my hand. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in silence for the longest time, looking at the stars and listening to the soft murmurs of various conversations drifting across the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Be quiet, Wilbur!” said Charlotte, who had been listening to this awful conversation. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Our family sits near the fire that night listening to Meng tell their story. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children were too young to understand the meaning of the stories and yet they were frightened, standing motionless, listening to her, and shivering even if the sun was hot. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We preferred it over the music our friends were listening to, yet nothing we did or said could convince my father of our devotion. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Peering over the edge, he put his hand to his ear in a pose of listening. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then he sat listening intently while those who had taken part in the battle recounted all they could remember. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the little maid still clung to Wang Lung’s feet, only now she ceased her weeping and lay listening to what took place. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re a boy. You get to lie around listening to stories. I have to scrub the floor, wash clothes, sweep the courtyard and—and—air out the babies’ bedding. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That wouldn't do no good—Then what shall we do about it?—I dont know: and he just listening, not especially interested he said, hearing the two of them without listening. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked up the spiral staircase slowly, smelling wet adobe plaster and listening to the rain rattle the waxy green cottonwood leaves growing near the porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But there is no mercy of any kind in these days,” he finished bitterly, and he sat listening. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But listening to the whimpering near her ear, and feeling her brother’s warm breath on her cheek, mostly, mostly, she just wanted to outlive Akira, so he would never be alone. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window and pretended like I wasn’t even listening to her go on about all the things I could do. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’ve always liked men, receiving them, paying them attention, listening to what they have to say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay down on it, my eyes closed, listening to the sounds around me: matches lighting, glass jars tinkling together, liquid falling into glasses. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sunday nights I sit outside on the pavement under Mrs. Purcell’s window listening to plays on the BBC and Radio Eireann, the Irish station. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He would follow along behind, listening to the rain pelt the trees, and watch her wind her way home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He shot baskets with his Nerf ball, glancing at the window after every shot, listening for taps on the pane. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I found a Dodgers game and lay on the floor listening to it until I dozed off. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I think he said some more stuff after that, going on about magnet facts and educated guesses, but I wasn’t listening anymore. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If you used a word even barely wrong he would be there to catch it, correct you, and then explain to you why you had made the mistake, even though you probably weren’t listening. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was when he was listening to a confused account of the missionary aims of the Swedish lady that one of the Wagon Lit conductors came into the car and stood at his elbow. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s because,” and here Ben paused, ensuring that everyone was listening, “it’s because you’re getting fat.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is every good German's duty to report enemy propaganda to the Gestapo, to turn in anyone suspected of listening to or reading enemy propaganda. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you listening to something you’re not supposed to be listening to?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed onto his own bed and stared up at the dark canvas roof, listening to the pounding of the rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Arya padded down the alley, balanced lightly on the balls of her bare feet, listening to the flutter of her heart, breathing slow deep breaths. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stood solemnly listening to the speech of firm instructions on the responsibilities of Eight and doing volunteer hours for the first time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stood a long long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes, half-walking and half-sleeping, listening always for the crack of the guns at my heels to know when to pick up my pace. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the mention of the word “champions,” the attentiveness of the listening students seemed to sharpen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wish I had taken pictures for them to see, but they were so excited just listening to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They all stopped eating and sat there very tense, listening. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse was standing in the doorway, listening to this exchange with interest. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed like forever since I’d had an ordinary afternoon there, listening to records and talking to friends who didn’t use the word “integration.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I had been listening to Phoebe’s tales of lunatics and axe murderers too much. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He remembers sitting in their living room, listening with all the other guests to Moushumi play something on the piano. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We might be in South America now,” Camilla said one night while we were drinking bourbon from teacups in my room and listening to rain dripping from the eaves. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I squirm a bit in the chair, because there ain’t no way listening to some old white man drone on for the better part of the evening was in my plans. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This means I’m listening even if there’s no eye contact. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler tilted his head, showed he was listening, and said nothing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the time, statutes governing electronic surveillance were nebulous, and Burns was an avid user of a Dictograph—a primitive listening device that could be concealed in anything from a clock to a chandelier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He would touch it, listening with his eyes, like an expectant father feeling his unborn baby kick inside its mother’s womb. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because they didn’t want to let the staff know what they were talking about, they had to adopt a strange, half-careless, indifferent manner, while listening with passionate curiosity. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the first tape into the VCR and sat beside him, searching his warped face, listening to his soft whimpers, while on the screen Alice Kramden outfoxed her husband again and again. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The young maid who has been listening to our English gibberish offers us a pink perfumed hand towel, which Sandi accepts and waves like the flag for our side. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He told Mark he would help him mow the front and back lawn on Wednesday evening, but stayed upstairs instead, listening to music. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I could never have imagined her listening to all these old records. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he went on talking and confessing, Siddhartha felt more and more that this was no longer Vasudeva, no longer a man who was listening to him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens his eyes for a moment and nods, and I know he is listening. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know very much about music—I’m the only one in the family who can’t sing or play an instrument—but even I knew that what I was listening to was sheer magnificence. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with tenor to the description the twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme silence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A stubborn, desperate voice inside of Lazlo bargained with whatever might be listening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We just sat there in the silence, listening to each other breathe. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stayed that way, sobbing, listening to the terrible sounds around her, until silence fell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As he sat there, watching the robot’s animal gestures and listening to her animal sounds, Brightbill realized just how special his mother really was. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the colonels were at the Province House with General Gage listening to their reports. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piano tuner works by listening to and timing these beats, rather than by being able to "hear" equal temperament intervals precisely. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were casually accepting of him, did not pay him any particular attention, and perhaps because of that he felt comfortable sitting on a sofa in the living room and listening. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since Donna and Kristina are talking and listening to music up there as if I’m not in the backseat, I summon Frank to sit next to me. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was listening to the Farmer who honestly believed that he could never do enough. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I kept listening for the tootling music, but all I heard were gunshots from the other side of the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Even the morning corpses seemed to be listening. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his parents were sitting with the manager at the table and were whispering; perhaps they were all leaning against the door and listening. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I heard the pattern, I couldn’t stop hearing it, and I spent the rest of the summer looking and listening for patterns in other random sources—the wind, clothes tumbling in the dryer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Hanako finished cooking the rice, listening to the sounds of everybody talking especially excitedly tonight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rubin started yelling louder now, like she was getting annoyed that nobody was listening. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As he lay there, he saw himself as he had been that morning, listening to the tavern bell. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew says something I don’t really hear; I’m listening to the thump of my heart. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s been listening to me rant for going on an hour now. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they lay for a while on their backs, gazing into the starry expanse through the railroad tracks, listening to the dark river below. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Dill sat in the hush, listening to their clattering refrigerator. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Nailer made his way deeper into the ship, listening to the creak and rush of water outside, his stealthy footsteps and the rasp of his own loud breathing. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the veranda listening to the radio. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’ll probably think I’m absent because I stayed out late listening to Adam and Shooting Star in Portland. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comrade Pillai lowered his voice as though there were people listening, though there was no one about. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For listening to the Devil, Grommet was made to spend the night in prayer and fasting. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night it filled the valley with her soft light and lighted a way for the solitary man standing in his field, listening to the plants sleep, listening to the resting earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a long pause before Henry says, “Hang on. Bea, can l have a minute? Hush. Yes, you can take the biscuits. All right, I’m listening.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chess hoped Emma was listening closely to hear what they needed to be extra cautious about, because he blanked out for a moment. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She sits on one of the beds and jostles it, listening to the straw crackle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her mother is trying to talk to her, but Vanessa is obviously more interested in watching us than listening to her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I look to see the other children listening intently, displaying no emotion. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So you are basically listening for a running, even pulse underlying the rhythms of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I stop listening to what they are saying. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been listening to that last speech of Count Olaf’s, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I stood for a long time listening to her footsteps, until I could hear them no more, and then I went to the headland and brought the baskets back to the cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to relax, listening to the sound- filled silence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done he shut the engine down and stood on the hatch with his back against the cabin, listening for the blasts of passing freighters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fifteen years after it all happened, I sat by my radio in Atlanta listening to Senator Church and the special committee hearings on the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stay in bed, listening as everybody else gets ready for the day. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She almost jumped out of her skin, even though she’d been listening for it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I would huddle, listening to their noise in the darkness, my eyebrows lifted, my lips pursed, the hair on the back of my neck standing up like pigs’ bristles. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the study erroneously credited with the notion that listening to classical music, particularly the music of Mozart, made you more intelligent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My body is braced: I’m listening out for him, for creaks or footsteps. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you been listening? Or have you closed up your ears? You know what the Nazis are doing to the Jews.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But he spent most of his time off lying on the bed in his tiny room, listening to classical music and thinking. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were still sitting there, listening, and watching the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says, to whoever’s listening, her head stuck in the pantry. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So carefully is he listening he does not see the one-mile marker with Vienna carved vertically in the stone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a theater in Chicago I once sat beside a man who watched the movie while listening to a Cubs game on his transistor radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Clara picked up the broken pieces of tureen with her usual aplomb, not showing any sign that she was listening to the stream of curses issuing from Esteban’s lips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they lay quiet, panting, listening to Robert's frightened snivels. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We knocked on the walls, listening for a telltale hollow sound; we felt for hidden seams. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had talked to Théoden, telling him about his home and the doings of the Shire-folk, or listening in turn to tales of the Mark and its mighty men of old. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They didn’t stop until a cab driver, who had been listening to the radio broadcast, told them it was just a play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in die maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After listening to their presentation, I advised them to throw their support to Sabata against Matanzima, who was illegally and shamefully usurping power from the king. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody, listening to his mother describe their new tenants, was intrigued less by the artist than by the mention of the “brilliant” daughter just his age. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Under the hill, the broken boy sat upon a weirwood throne, listening to whispers in the dark as ravens walked up and down his arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Come on, I think I’m entitled to a few details after listening to you ramble on about her for the last two span.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain that they weren't real New Yorkers, but at that point she'd stopped listening to anything I had to say. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The four of them, not speaking, sat and waited, listening. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They rested and had a light meal, talking quietly and listening from time to time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They politely told people that they were listening to a dramatic show, not news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Little groups of children were gathered about, playing or reading or listening to one of several nuns who were out there with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haymitch is actually bent on keeping us alive, but there are too many ears listening, so I just say, "Yes, he's gotten very responsible lately." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I stood in the middle of the cabin, listening to the gurgle of the saltwater fountain and the ocean waves outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I looked back and forth between these two busters, shaking my head, making like I was barely listening anymore even though I was. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aware that German people were listening, the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC, broadcast the news in the German language. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was through her that Moss had discovered bands like Bad Brains and Death, and she never made him feel inferior for listening to other kinds of music. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I let out my breath and creep away before anyone catches me listening. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bigwig, however, remained with the gull, making no secret of his admiration, talking and listening to it for several hours. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood and brushed themselves off, listening to the silence in the distance. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Matthew had been listening, his arm looped casually around the post as if he were waiting for a bus instead of hurtling down a steep hill. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For an hour he lay without moving, listening to the sprint of roaches beneath him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were talking on a phone they made twice the number of errors as when they were listening to the radio. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Later, she stood back-to-bapk with Qarl, listening to the grunts and curses all around them, to brave men crawling through the shadows weeping for their mothers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was with Ron in the living room, listening to music too loud and playing board games. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We would sneak away while he kept listening to the radio as if nothing had happened. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pause, suck in my breath, listening to my words echo in my brain. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So I lifted my head and, avoiding the scared-looking kid plastered onto the pane of glass at the other end of the table, I told Ted I was listening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I’m listening to my Walkman and humming my talent song. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The process of tracking down these people and listening to their stories has been one of the most interesting experiences of my life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Their wands were drawn and they were listening at the concealed hole. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was aware that just outside the cottage, beside the door that had been left partly open for fresh autumn air, the little girls, wide-eyed, were listening. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To Bigger her face seemed to be capable of hearing in every pore of the skin and listening always to some low voice speaking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tolerate having the tracker clamped to my ankle, try to look as if I’m listening when they explain how to use the handheld communicator. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the morning the boy lay listening to his mother as she opened and closed the stove door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chances of them listening to me were as good as a snowball’s chance in the Devil’s bake oven. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t see his expression, but I know he is listening. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Weren’t you listening to my fascinating presentation upstairs?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stopped suddenly, her head bent in listening. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She even has his number there; she’d called it once, listening to the voice of the woman who must be Maxine’s mother, not leaving any message. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate had sat there listening to him, her wondering eyes resting on his face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also seems to be the postmistress, for she is sorting mail as well as listening to Bando’s order. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each and every fan, those who have willingly traveled the 530 miles, those listening at home over the radio, can feeVit in his soul. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen stayed awake all night, talking to the Lord and listening for the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I'm there, and I'm looking in through the glass in the door to the listening room, and I'm glad I came. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neely sped through a two-minute lesson on what we were actually supposed to be learning from this whole dissection business, but none of us were listening. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From here, after another listening pause, they began to make their way up the slope toward the northern skyline. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what would you say to Harry if you knew he was listening, Romulus?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone within earshot froze, listening for Howard’s response. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This I thought as I lay there, listening to the sounds of sleep and lost in my own imaginings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ask away, friend. There is no one listening.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Like a prayer, to a God we know isn’t listening. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered exactly how he had felt sitting there—listening, making notes, appreciating everything, tabulating every scrap of evidence that told against the prisoner. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

They take their joints partway up a hill to a billiard hall, where they sit outside smoking and listening to the music that drifts through the open doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was listening to the same genial, slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At least nothing that could be turned into something cool like listening through walls. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I was so worried about the army coming and nobody listening to me.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tayo was listening to the wind outside; late in the afternoon it would begin to die down. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then she sees me standing there listening and shoots me the stink-eye. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We sit silently, listening to the rain on the thatched roof, a numb, damp, fatalistic feeling among us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood under the eaves of the forest, stooping forward, as if he were listening, and peering with wide eyes into the shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine months, she spends night after night patiently listening to drunken men talk about their problems, how they miss their wives and children left behind in Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For a time they both sat listening to the small sounds in the house, the scratching of the pen, the rustling and snapping of the fire, and the slow purr of the yellow cat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I hate listening to stuff through the speakers of my phone, but music is always better than no music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He pulled my ear to make sure I was listening. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go in and sit with Mama and Aunty Ifeoma, but instead I just stood still, listening. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sat for a while, listening to the sounds of spring in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the music you were listening to contain the line Here comes the fun...wait for the sound of the gun?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The little girls had come into the kitchen and were leaning on either side of their fathers chair, listening with the same dark-eyed intensity. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tipped his head on one side as if he was listening to something. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We sat on Grandmothers verandah, waiting and listening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He kept waking up through the night, listening for the tick, staring at the glowing hands. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abenthy seemed to be listening as well, in an offhand way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I say “ton of money,” Sneaky starts listening. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And so they sat listening to the soothing randomness of the rain until Citra began to grow too weary to even think. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The next course arrives and Celia returns to listening and observing, in between trying to figure out if the meat disguised in feather-light pastry and delicate wine sauce is actually lamb or something more exotic. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is really starting to sink in that no one is listening to me. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Afraid, listening to Woundwort’s approach, Bigwig could hear the uneven movement of his forepaws, almost within striking distance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akira rested against Mama’s other shoulder, listening to the song with a faraway look in his eyes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I said to Ben, still not listening, still trying to see as much of her as I could without being too obvious. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everywhere people were talking and arguing and listening to Chester. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited, listening to the howling wind and the cries of the pack scratching at our wall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma and I had been listening to Mary Alice: Jump said Coolidge, Jump said Hoover, Jump said the driver of the Furniture mover. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sink back into the vinyl couch cushions, my sketchbook propped against my knees, listening to Mom’s voice changing, character to character. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hid themselves inside it, listening to the rumbling of hundreds of people moving overhead, and the staffroom door banging open. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

At forty minutes past the hour, the Mercury Theatre’s Dan Seymour announces to the audience that they are listening to a presentation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds on CBS Radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Neither Hazel nor any of the rabbits who had been listening to Dandelion’s story had ever seen a fox. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on to praise Kathy and Jesus and reaffirm the primacy of his and their faith, but by then she was hardly listening. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The detectives, hiding in another room, began listening to the staticky voices of Rose and her boyfriend through earphones. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had a smile on her dust devil face, as if she were intently listening to her favorite song. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He also cupped his hand over his ear and pretended to be listening really, really hard. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was about to say something, maybe apologize again for not listening or not seeing or not doing whatever it was he thought he should have done. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dany drank, and lay back, listening to the soft sound of her own breathing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Harry stood quite still and silent, listening to her sobbing and calling Ron’s name amongst the trees. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I noticed that more than a few were casually listening to our conversation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Blind Hod stood to one side, listening to the merriment and the shouts of joy and astonishment coming from the green, and he sighed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The four of us are seated around the dining room table, nibbling at the ends of our pizza crusts and listening to Connor talk about his day at school. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped in the middle of the sentence, turning her head slightly, listening for something. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just like listening to Mother and Grandfather making the decisions while I stood to the side. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a great student, listening carefully as I show her what to do. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I tell her about Curtis and the gift cards and listening to Alabama Shakes and the Pixies and Patti Smith all the time. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was listening with every cell, desperate to pick up a new piece of information or add a new color to the picture that was my father’s last days. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By then I was just barely listening, because it had dawned on me that our time of mourning must be about over. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Man, the whole school is on my case for blowing the game to dumb old Powell Academy and you talking about listening to some jams,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although my eyes were seeing the wonders of the night, my ears were ever alert, listening for the sound of my hounds telling me they had found a trail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he just rocks back and forth like he’s listening to music. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I never touched them,” I said, though no one was really listening. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then I say, "So, if you're doing this walk alone, you're listening to the traffic, right? To tell when the lights have changed?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not supposed to be listening in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She leaned in closer, as if someone might be hiding nearby, listening to our every word. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Woundwort and Vervain went carefully along the south wall of the Honeycomb, scratching and listening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I did say that. Good, Ally. Good listening.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Singers, do not, for example, learn opera in their garages or simply by listening to recordings. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We stood there listening and could hear Newcharlie crying all the way down the stairs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is why Violet is a hairdresser—all those years of listening to her rescuing grandmother, True Belle, tell Baltimore stories. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t bother listening to them, but texted Tab instead: Bridge: U OK? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

After so many days of sitting alone, listening to the cafeteria noises, I’m good at hearing things. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He sits with his forehead against the listening decks and is sick between his shoes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he was listening, just festering. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I imagine producing those melodious notes and pronouncing each letter properly—even with others listening—and the idea makes me happy. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Too polite to object, Helen found herself listening. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Seer had gone, Leader stood at the window for a while, listening to the wall builders at their preparations. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was listening for the sound of footsteps in the hall, and when I heard them I became deranged. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So that he went back to his enclosure, reading and rereading the parchments and listening until very late at night to Fernanda sobbing in her bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

No one seemed interested in listening to what she had to say. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After the hunters had left, we stood around our campfires sipping strong black coffee and listening to the baying of the hounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Maxime was listening, motionless, apparently staring at the silvery fountain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She must have been listening at the door and lost her balance. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she’s right, I know that now, as I kneel on this undeniably hard floor, listening to the ceremony drone on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom comes home shortly thereafter and sits with us in the living room, listening to Nuah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Were only offering a four-hundred-dollar advance and then another four hundred dollars when it’s finished... are you.. .listening?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down against the side of the crate, arms around his knees, listening to her breathing, listening for sounds of pursuit, and waiting for her to wake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Betts continued to stand there for a moment more, listening. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya felt so stupid, standing there listening to her, holding the evidence while trying to hide it at the same time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All along—not only since she left, but for a decade before—I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as poor a window as I did. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They sat around for a while drinking cider and listening to a Christmas carol program. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I just stare at my phone, only half listening to the Radiohead song drifting out of someone’s dorm room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I glance over at Albert, who is listening to Shay talk again. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, most of you listening probably had no idea what you were doing—what you were truly doing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t speaking loudly, but Malcolm knew that everyone nearby—and his father, especially—would be listening intently. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep listening to his slow, even breaths, his stubbornness finally melting away in the face of insurmountable fatigue. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I felt like we were listening to them together. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At about the time I no longer bothered to listen with care to the sounds of English in public, I grew careless about listening to the sounds family members made when they spoke. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While down, I chipped the deer flap clean, and sort of swam back into my tree, listening to trees exploding all over the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Jaden and Jenny were staring at me, so I dialed the number and sat there listening to it ring, wishing I could just hang up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu stared out of the window, half listening, thinking how unpretty Lagos was, roads infested with potholes, houses springing up unplanned like weeds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That lets the other person know that we’re listening and interested. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her ear to it, listening for any hint of sound. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it felt like she was listening for something specific, although I could never tell what that was. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Even with the radio. My sisters are listening.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the half smile on Fred’s face, wondering whether he still had liked playing patriotic songs with Mr. P, while he was listening to experimental jazz upstairs in his room. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Donay smiles his old man smile, like a child listening to a story. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had stopped listening to him, to Homer’s unwholesome snickering. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He waited, listening carefully, but not a sound reached him save the gurgling of the hot water as it drained away. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t take much listening to tell he was lying, or at least doing some real good exaggerating, just like I do! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leibowitz sits in an armchair reading the paper, listening to the radio. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a womout musical box. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It is also true that all listening is not the same. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I keep walking, pulling Caleb with me, listening for footsteps behind me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even then, he carried on listening and smiling. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he was in the Paris Grill listening to the automatic phonograph playing; but that was not satisfying. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Adam,” she said, “I hate you. I hate you now for the first time. I hate you! Adam, are you listening? I hate you!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child, and then later, when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It feels good knowing someone understands what I’m listening to, what I’m going through. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There were windows open in the upstairs apartment that faced the back; I heard people talking, listening to the radio, moving around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can hear Sweets listening on the other end of the phone. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

One advantage of the former was that while he was listening he could also be glancing at a board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had begun listening to his mother with the dulled ear of someone who was about to be conned and knew it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madoc is patiently listening to her rhapsodize over the perfection of their garments. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think so,” Dad said, listening more closely, tilting his head and half closing his eyes. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There is that,” Abuelita said, reaching out to caress our faces one by one, listening to our unhappy sighs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And he was awfully proud that it was his pet that everyone was listening to. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the kitchen, the maid is listening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Palmer stayed a long while, his eyes closed, listening, trying to feel. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ryan has already memorized Link’s entire temple service just from listening to Rabbi Gold’s recording so many times. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She put her head on his chest, listening to the thump-thump of his heart. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He slipped closer and stuck his head close to the hole, listening. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went straight home from school the next day and spent the afternoon and evening listening to my father read to me from my textbooks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now he was not even listening to what was going on about him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, are we not? Did I skip ahead again? My bad. Hello, would you like to come out to me? I’m listening. Hi.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They did not die in the dives and dens of Birmingham, nor did they die discussing and listening to filthy jokes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Angie joined us, but most of the time she remained sequestered in her pink room, listening to the music we were forbidden in the rest of the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For a minute, we just sit there, listening to Nick hum as he pokes around his storage closet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I catch Mrs. Frost smiling at us, and I think she’s listening, too. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bridges was yelling and waving at the Cypress Bay fans to go back, to get out of there, but they weren’t listening. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was assigned to a listening post, and later he worked for the Ministry of Propaganda. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Either that or she was standing in the hall, listening. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Harry got up and swayed again; the pain in his leg, which he had not noticed all the time he had been listening to Crouch, now returned in full measure. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She just stood there quiedy as if she was listening respectfully to someone talking to her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He crouched in the dimness, heart pounding, listening hard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a— I run through a short list of insults in my mind before listening to her continue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was just listening and trying not to clown him, and even told him that I still had the one he gave me when we first met, when all of a sudden a door slammed. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The stupid girl did not seem to be listening. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nya knew from listening to the grownups that the crew leader had made many arrangements concerning the well. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house-elves all around the kitchen, who had been listening and watching with interest, all looked away at these words, as though Dobby had said something rude and embarrassing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The two of us, listening to the chunk, chunk, chunk of the track joints, lost in our own thoughts. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed to the door and stood there, listening. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Try listening to someone’s heart or lungs in that setting. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He’s on his bunk listening to his iPod. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Neither can I,” said Silver, listening with his ears up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in my apartment again, I sat listening for the sound of the back door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean it,” she said, because she knew I wasn’t listening as seriously as she was talking. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors’ houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be listening, and challenging any living creature to make a noise. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pita put her ear to the animal’s mouth like she was listening to him speak. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bran could hear the wind in the trees, the clatter of their hooves on the ironwood planks, the whimpering of his hungry pup, but Jon was listening to something else. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Harry was listening for noise from the campsite. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Separately, he also had the subjects “drive” while listening to the radio or a book on tape. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had been aroused from sleep and for an instant I stood there looking, listening to the voice almost lost in the clamour of shouts, screams, burglar alarms and sirens. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing in the room of the biggest Carousel in the world, listening to “The Emperor Waltz.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even the handcuffed inmates awaiting their cases had stopped talking and were listening intently. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was tearing Jon apart, yet he dare not shout for the direwolf as he would have liked Other things might be listening as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You listening to this? You fat old Druid?” he inquired. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Andrea turns the music up a little and says, “This is my song!” and that gets us all singing and listening to music for the rest of the afternoon. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I fed him,” she yelled from the same window to anyone who was listening. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa’s fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people were actually listening to a teenage girl, and they believed me! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sitti was back in the room by now, listening to them talk English and nodding her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded at what they were saying without really listening. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mom sat listening, a slight smile on her face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of the wind that brought the scent of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his hand off me, turned, and looked in my eyes to make sure I was listening. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty in the evening, when the entire family was listening to the radio in the private office, he took his treasure and stole off to the loft again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I lay there for a while, completely relaxed, listening to tunes, feeling groovy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I can look at Kat and still be listening to whoever I’m talking to,” Dr. Gazzaley says, then shifts his eyes back to me. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I tilted my head towards his voice, so that I held my face in the palm of one hand, listening. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I am not listening too closely as Heather ahems her way to what is on her mind. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time I spend learning the songs and listening to Met Bong preach the philosophy of the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, September 8, we were listening to the seven o’clock news when we heard an announcement: “Here is some of the best news of the war so far: Italy has capitulated.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Quit talking about it. I’m not listening. Whoa! What was that? You see that?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You said I wasn’t to look,” the demon girl said as she got up, dusting herself off “You didn’t say anything about listening.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hit dial, listening to it ring, my eyes closing as it goes to voice mail. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The gunshots finally ceased, and the world was very quiet, as if listening. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Joe waited there, till his listening made him drowsy and he slept for an hour or more. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeley, the sentimental sap, was listening to the silly, bookish girl and easing up on his grip. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t bear listening to her any longer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was eating this stuff up, listening, and nodding, and every once in a while she would say, “Very good point” or “Yes, that’s exactly right.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead, I just keep unloading boxes, keep doing my job, keep listening to Mr. Malloy talk and talk. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I was staring at the sky, the dark clouds, listening to the distant thunder. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I rushed home from school every day to sit by the radio for hours listening to the romantic tales of women with names like Mariana and Sofía, and men such as Armando and Ricardo. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Our friend Brenda stands listening, books clutched against her broad, broad chest, hair shining pink and red. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Connor sat on a rock, hand in his chin, listening intently. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We quietly sat against the wall listening to the rapid bursts of gunfire in the distance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Through this gate doubtless they had all escaped this day and were hidden here and there through the streets, listening to the howling in their courts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be listening at all. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Guillermo’s listening so intently and I’m thinking maybe he’s the kind of man who makes all the walls in people fall down too, not just rooms, because like yesterday, I want to tell him more. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And if she was waiting and listening, what did she hear? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I can’t say for certain whether God was listening, but it wasn’t long afterward that I heard the wheezy chug-a-chug- chug of a small outboard motor. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor stood now with his head against the door, listening, with Luke holding his arm to keep him from moving. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is a school counselor and listening is a big part of counseling. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But they were shut out, listening at a door to words not meant for them: ill-mannered children or stupid servants overhearing the elusive discourse of their elders, and wondering how it would affect their lot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He talked some other stuff but I wasn’t even listening. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I just quit listening. You listen! You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin life! Live it!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood quietly, listening to the caller at the other end. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I found out how she was listening in on private conversations when she wasn’t supposed to be coming onto the grounds,” said Hermione in a rush. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sat there on the couch listening to me, not saying a word. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Grandma even stood by, listening to the entire conversation, with arms folded and a huffy attitude. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this lady was nice, she was listening hard to me, and she said she would get things fixed quickly for the Lost Girls. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jerk myself up, a panic destroying whatever calm listening to Gran had offered. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the creek for a time, listening to the icy trickle of Water over rock, then cut across the fields to the kingsroad. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I sit at my desk and look like I’m listening to Mrs. Robins go on and on, just counting the minutes till three o’clock. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Later, while Sansa was off listening to a troupe of singers perform the complex round of interwoven ballads called the "Dance of the Dragons," Ned inspected the bruise himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Emma tossed a rock down the giant’s throat, listening for whatever sound came back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve already made up my mind that I’m going to do this, but I’m kind of enjoying listening to Mrs. Parker beg a little. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hall pleaded in a desperate, breathless voice to anyone on the mountain who might be listening. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Always thought he was odd,” she told the eagerly listening villagers, after her fourth sherry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every time a car door slammed, he broke into a hopeful smile and turned expectantly toward the entrance, listening for footsteps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lyra imagined the Chaplain speaking loftily, listening to the star daemons’ remarks, and then nodding judiciously or shaking his head in regret. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as Florida lay in bed listening to the wail of the freight train passing through Boxton, she thought about the old lunatics and about going down a river in a boat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He grunted occasionally to show he was listening and directed the horse along a dirt path. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Let me tell you something now, buddy....Are you listening?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or was she waiting and listening in the kitchen? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I laid my head on my grandmother’s lap, and I felt like a little kid again, listening to my family talk around me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, after several hours of listening to Jenny and learning his moves, Fred was ready to shoot his warehouse scene with Cha-Cha. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We were both listening, but all we heard were the usual night sounds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am. I’m standing here listening to you tell me the news of the day—that a bush is dying.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us sit around, listening to one of Didu's old cassette tapes of Tagore songs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Auntie Idris had told my dad he was wrong, but he wasn’t listening. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Harry wished it could have stayed, he could have used some company . . . but he moved on, quickly and quietly as possible, listening hard, his wand held high once more. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

By noon the talks weren't finished, but Father was in no shape to continue his listening campaign. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I took a few steps back down the staircase, but it was pointless to pretend that I hadn’t been listening. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We drove past them in Black Betty—Liam and I, sitting up front together, listening to a Led Zeppelin song that might not have even been real. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The next day, when I come back from pasturing the cow, the Doctorita is in an unusually good mood, listening to music, waltzing around the house, her cheeks rosy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became aware of our malevolent waiter, lurking in the shadows, no doubt listening to this exchange with interest. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I stop listening after sixty seconds and stare out the window. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had been listening to the Janis Joplin CD and it was her favorite song. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now we are going to have a new noise, Eleanor thought, listening to the inside of her head; it is changing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get him to the hospital,” I say to whoever is listening. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I held my breath, listening to the quiet, then continued toward lights at the edge of the trees. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Governor was listening to everything so passively. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As Ralph had grown more sophisticated from listening to children, he came to understand that children moved. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

None of us said anything for a while, but we were all sort of grinning now, and looking at each other, still listening for sirens though no sirens would ever come. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fun things include dancing, walking, talking, and listening to music. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he went on listening to Meggie’s quiet breathing, then stole back to the door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He probed the wax in his ears with the pencil and began to concentrate, listening to the sounds of his mother’s preparations for an evening at the bowling alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing they could do, and from listening to them talk, Frank was pretty sure they didn’t have the same problem with their godly parents yelling in their ears. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the course of a week, he might be given between one hundred and two hundred songs by new artists, and every weekend he sits at home, listening to them one after another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I nod, listening, with the same numbness as my father a moment ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was awful listening to that voice come from that face. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran outside and crouched close to the doorway, listening to them argue about Lassa fever. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was parked in the driveway, sitting in her old Buick, smoking and listening to the oldies station on the radio. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It was my fault,” he said, not listening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long when you’re listening to a story, but half a year is a great long while to live through, especially if you are young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stood for a moment in the clearing, listening to the water dripping down off the beech leaves, and then realized what he had done, and what would happen to him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Just to hear themselves talk and the joy of watching the distressed faces of those listening. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three friends had grown up together, listening to Cob’s stories and ignoring his advice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am still not listening as he starts on math. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a nightmare,” Mom complained when she didn’t think I was listening. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, I had learned that she was listening even when it seemed like she wasn’t. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, as if everyone in the troupe was listening for something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the soap smell, the disinfectant smell, and stand in the white bathroom, listening to the distant sounds of water running, toilets being flushed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just listening to it gave the commander shivers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"No. It was awesome. I didn't want to stop listening. That one song— is it 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'?" "Yeah, Joy Division." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rang just after dinner while they sat on the moonlit veranda, drinking, listening to High Life music. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One morning three years after I’d moved to New York, I was getting ready for class and listening to the radio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew now what Tenorio had done, and I hated myself for not having guessed it, and I hated Andrew for not listening to Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a longtime we just sit there, and I pretend to be listening to an Amity girl telling a story on my left. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His mother talked on as though she had not heard him and he stopped listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anywhere but here, listening to this unbelievable story being told to him by a man he loved. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His years in the Kingsguard had taught him the trick of listening without hearing, especially useful when the speaker was intent on proving that words were truly wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is quiet for a while and I think I hear Arthur listening to the radio and the boys’ footsteps as they’re running around. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And finally she came to a point where she knew it so well that she went right on reading it without listening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few of the fellows had extraordinary voices, and I often felt like putting my pick down and simply listening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rock-dust crew moved off only a couple of feet so they could keep listening. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve never taken drugs, but I wonder if taking acid might feel something like listening to Space Is the Place in the dark while staring up at glow-in-the-dark sticker constellations. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Jonathan, listening to something his father is saying, doesn’t hear, Gogol feels helpless, annoyed yet unable to blame his mother, caught in the mess he’s made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to talk aloud when she was alone, just in case any spirits were listening. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Not very romantic, but he was tired of listening to me tell him how sorry I was in the morning when I didn’t even know w hat I was sorry for. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his older brother walked in the room and said it was both of our faults if he got sick to his stomach listening to us. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some folks are unloading gallons of water from their cars; others, zombielike, instead of waving or saying hello when we pass by, keep staring at baby TVs or listening to boom box radios. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

As we walked the grounds, listening to Dr. Pérez, I was impressed by what Cuba had done about AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We stood in the parking lot, listening to kids laughing on the playground. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the fodder house all that day, lying on top of the com, listening to the drip of the rain, waiting for dark, when they would set out. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, my AIM profile currently contained a list of songs I was listening to on repeat last week— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had been parked on the street for about fifteen minutes listening to Sly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Your Suggestion Can we please choose a book with a boy this time— Weren’t you listening? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, as Bolles spoke with them, the boys noticed a figure standing in the background, watching quietly and listening intently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Harry lay listening with his eyes tight shut. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was holding his head in the palms of his hands, the elbows on the open Talmud in front of him, and listening intently. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the House of Black and White, you never knew who might be listening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So often, nothing could deliver me from fear, but then sometimes, just listening to Daisy did the trick. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re not doing a good job listening to them,” I tease. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got the feeling from listening to them talk on the radio for a week that they would always appreciate the earth more because of their flight so far away from it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More listening to birds, the scampering of hidden animals, and inhaling clean air. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Six weeks of listening to Francis had made me realize that the crux of the matter was whether Rosy’s new X-ray pictures would lend any support for a helical DNA structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I carry my breakfast into the living room, listening. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Establishing counterrevolutionary ties and listening to foreign radio? It must be Fan Wen-chong who told them,” Grandma said slowly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most stood by watching the yellow-orange flames leaping from roof to roof and listening to the horrible crackle pop of dry pine being consumed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor said something then, but Ophie stopped listening to the conversation around her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sarai lingered in the half-light of the gallery, listening to the rhythms of Sparrow and Ruby arguing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He bounded off the bed, listening, thinking that he had heard voices. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Mrs. Johnson told us and I just wasn’t listening. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she seemed to know, too, when to stop listening to it, as if all of what little or much wisdom there is in the world were suddenly hers. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She glanced behind her at the heart tree, the pale bark and red eyes, watching, listening, thinking its long slow thoughts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I know that you’re not supposed to think about dancing—what is that stupid expression, Sing like no one’s listening, dance like no one’s watching?—whatever. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is terribly odd to hear a voice after weeks of listening only to birds and raccoons, and what is more, to hear the voice ask a question like that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Jinny just sat there, listening to the water and the birds wheeling above. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It sounded strange, as if I were listening to the recorded laughter of a stranger being played back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next hour on the phone listening to her talk about the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the girls fell asleep, I lay awake for some time listening to their soft breathing, thinking about going to Abuelita’s house and what might happen once we got to Hacienda Dorada. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shadow spent the night half-awake, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They went to bed and lay together, cold and thin, listening to the rain returned to the roof above them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to wait for them to fly,” Axel says, listening to the sounds coming from inside the nest. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Actually, he’s sort of friendly and interested, as if he’s listening while you’re telling him something he wants to know about. There’s nothing really wrong about him. It’s her....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The lower to middle elementary-aged child is ready for more complex listening, singing, and music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I’m on a Lorde kick this week and could be listening to more of her music before class, but I got my best friend pants on because Dylan is thrown off by Samantha right now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He started to take it in, listening to the narrative and analyzing it from several sides. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad’s having his coffee and Ma’s in the living room listening to the Sunday morning service by Brother Jonas. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had awakened him and he lay listening, his senses keyed and alert, the memory of the tanker fresh in his mind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed listening to him tell stories and talk about Mexico. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the tent Harry’s breathing was shallow with excitement: He and Hermione stared at each other, listening as hard as they could. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Often, we steadied one another just by listening. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His ears were large, and when he was listening, they stood up like a deer’s. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I sat up, too, and turned my head, listening. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung usually lay listening to it and moved only when he heard it approaching nearer and when he heard the door of his father’s room squeak upon its wooden hinges. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I edged closer, trying to draw her attention, but she was wholly absorbed in listening to her mother, who was explaining how cramp bark and motherwort should be administered to treat post-birth contractions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His voice was low and Pickett did not hear it, was not even listening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lady, are you not listening to me? This is my mother’s life. This is her life. Take the money. Take all of it. I don’t care.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was always listening to slightly eerie Indian music in his earbuds, and he was constantly telling her that her “aura wasn’t vibrant enough” and she should drink more tea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, why would you be listening to me talk about it? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Don’t take me long to get the story pieced together listening to her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I lay back listening to him breathing in and out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not even listening to what’s coming out of my mouth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I moved into the street, listening to the distant sounds of the riot and seeing in my mind the image of two eyes in the bottom of a shattered glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie had been listening but she did not seem to notice Rocky’s disrespect. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Tommy, though he’d seen me, went on listening to his friend, and eventually he and all the others burst out laughing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m barely listening when the peace in our class is shattered by what she says next. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Every cloud, every car on every motorway, even Mrs. Thatcher in the House of Commons'd frozen, listening, watching, thinking, What's wrong with Jason Taylor? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Olga sits back, her face attentive, as if she were listening to someone preach something she believes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts his head a little, listening for footsteps. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend what must be an entire day listening to Ben shuffle around the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But long after Edwin and Garvey fell asleep, Cole lay awake in the tent listening to their deep regular breathing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I waited, breathing softly and listening, debating if I should tell Lily what had happened a few days ago—down at the Bakers’. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He rode along with delight blossoming in him like a roseate flower, listening. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I blow it up, yelling, so that Mom can hear inside, and probably anyone else in listening range. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The wind was listening closely, and wanted to tell every corner of the world that the sun’s wisdom had its limitations. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was laid back and her eyes turned to Lizzie, and she was listening to her sweet high voice as if it were the first spring day. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t given them ordinary walkie-talkies because he didn’t want anybody listening to the talk, especially the news media, who might make a tape recording of the chatter. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus they wandered for some five minutes, standing still, listening, clanking, crouching, creeping, peering, walking on tiptoe, and occasionally making a chance swipe behind their hacks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudio sat down heavily, hunched over, head hanging, staring at the ground, listening to the horses nosing apart the hay, listening also to the quiet country and western strains from Marvin LaBlue’s radio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning listening to Dodo Conway's baby carriage would drive me crazy. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s not nice of me, but I’m barely listening to Breanna, I have so many thoughts swirling through my head. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We sit listening to the clacking of the ties beneath us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the middle of these three illustrative points, Mrs. Glass had left off listening and sat down. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow, it makes it not as scary to keep listening. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I rest the back of my head against the wall, listening. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I stayed there for several minutes, just listening to all the talk and the racket. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Petra sat by the river’s edge listening to the night sounds and watching a frog hopping along the marshy, muddy bank. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Only one thing followed type: Afterward, when I had my face resting against Augustus’s chest, listening to his heart pound, Augustus said, “Hazel Grace, I literally cannot keep my eyes open.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don't like talking on the phone in front of people—it makes me uncomfortable, and I feel like everyone is listening. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Will’s friend Steve hung by Coach and the refs, listening to their discussion. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Max sometimes acted like his brain had been watching YouTube instead of listening. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to know whether the toad was listening or not. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles thought that listening to music could be rapturous, religious even. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I row a steady pace toward the scarecrow, listening to the rhythmic squeak of the oar sockets that complain with each stroke. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was afraid people at his phone kiosk were listening. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I know that? And were you listening in on us?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then Joe slipped into soft, slow, sweet love songs and Joyce grew quiet, listening carefully, happy in a different, deeper way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So she winked hard, shook her head, and said gruffly because Amy was listening, “It was an abominable thing, and she doesn’t deserve to be forgiven.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Dunmore did not speak at first, simply listening to his guests before unfolding his own schemes and views. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At last I lighted my gas mantle and tried to read, but with listening I could not follow the words. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zbyszek stood next to his father, hands behind his back, studying the ceiling, and I could see that Mrs. Diamant and Izio had both sidled nearer, listening while pretending not to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then see if you can begin to recognize the type of cadence just by listening to the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you ever talk like a real person? I’m tired of listening to you quote stupid stuff!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once, as they sat together listening to a lecture at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he turned to her and said, “I am afraid this is very wearisome to you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The re­ward for the watching eye and the listening ear is great. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he didn’t say anything as we drove east toward the groves, listening to a country music station. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said it didn’t mean she’d been seeing him, but Father wasn’t listening. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, though, listening to beautiful music night after night, one grows curious about the player. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he sat listening to this moaning until he could not bear it, and he rose and went in to the town to ask where a doctor’s shop was. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the verandah listening to “Now That We Found Love” by Heavy D & The Boyz and watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been listening out for Ben’s Noise over the farm and I’ve tracked him down to one corner of one of the wheat fields. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Breathing the night air and listening to the waves. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Finn and the mare stood in the circle of hives, listening to the deep hum of the bees, feeling that hum in their skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He's somewhere else, not really listening to my scales. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After listening to my dream about Grover again, she looked like she might be starting to believe me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the door in and took a step inside and stopped, waiting, listening. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ben started outlining plans for finding a date, but I was only half listening, because through the thickening mass of humanity crowding the hallway, I could see Margo Roth Spiegelman. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I asked, listening to the story like it was one of Noodles's comics. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I lay like a man rescued from drowning, listening, still not sure I was alive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were silent, listening to the stretching and groaning of the timbers, the hissing of the wind in the sails. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My mother keeps talking but I’m only half listening. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we’re done talking, because neither of us knows who could be listening, and we keep to ourselves as the train heads home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sprang into the dark passageway and flattened himself against the wall, listening to footsteps draw nearer, nearer, then pass and begin to recede down the street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And as we kept listening to them, stealing the odd glance in their direction, bit by bit, something started to change. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he goes on about how he loves me, what life would be without me but I've stopped listening because his previous words are trapped in my head, thrashing desperately around. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Staring at the ceiling, listening for the sound of helicopters and the pounding of combat boots on the roof. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For the student, music not only strengthens emotional and cognitive development, but also allows a new outlet of expression, and a new means of learning through listening and making sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Still, I have no desire to take back my words because finally, finally, I have said something she’s listening to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It hardly seems fair,” I whispered, my face still resting on his chest, listening to his breath come and go. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been sitting behind me sharpening his bayonet and listening as I explained what a sennimbari meant to a Japanese soldier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was going to pay for not listening to him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s listening, frozen still behind the locked door of his bedroom. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jay wasn’t listening and I had to ask him again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Joseph walked, listening to the sound of what was beneath his feet, and soon he noticed he was alone. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And she said, “You’re not listening to me, are you, Christopher.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Percy and Ella were listening, but she spoke mostly to Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I often sit on the seventh step listening and they have no notion I’m there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Music listening is, of course, closely related to brain function. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I look both ways before slipping it under the door, and lean against the wall, listening. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We all got super quiet, listening for footsteps in the dark. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Why must he waste his days listening to old men speak of things he Only half understood? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

St. Francis doesn’t say a word but I know he’s listening and I know he’ll get me out of that class. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I did,” said Despereaux, “but I was listening to the music, sir. I was there to hear the song that the king was singing. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Would guards wait outside the door, listening for the sharp pleasure that signaled his departure? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Joy Luck aunties begin to make small talk, not really listening to each other. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see her listening to Miss Leefolt call me dirty, diseased. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I have to get my mind focused and stop listening to myself— because I send myself the wrong way sometimes. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you tell which is which simply by listening? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Many parents restrict media viewing, for families with access, limiting the number of films they see as well as the hours spent watching television, listening to radio, and playing video games. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Arthur had been listening closely and turning over his own thoughts. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled the boy down and they crouched under the bank listening, gasping for breath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the third night, Mother tended him and I stood in the doorway, listening to his gasps, watching Mother watch him, her face hollow, her eyes swollen with worry and exhaustion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ellis is as a testimony to the transformative power of listening. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The loft was full of women either sleeping or listening. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Let her sleep, he decided, and he moved silently about the room, listening at the door, watching out of the window, awake and alert. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So?” said Ron in a very low voice, as though he thought the furniture might be listening in. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nel sat on the red-velvet sofa listening to her mother but remembering the smell and the tight, tight hug of the woman in yellow who rubbed burned matches over her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He is listening. He can’t help listening. It’s what caused all the trouble for him in the first place.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tunneled into the swirling white blackness, listening to the beat of the fan working to defrost the windshield and the odd airy crinkle coming from the bag in the back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We both like listening to music and being with our friends. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I play as if no one is listening, basking in the richness of the sound. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It’s so easy, just listening, to get lost in the jazz tunes and rhythms that fill my head in Roxbury. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty had arrived at the homeplace the night before to find the blind man preparing for bed and listening attentively to the low collective moan, clearly a large number of people grieving. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital, and now she said, "How far can you go?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Could it be on account of the penguins, sir?” asked Janie, who had been listening very hard. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the church, the cemetery is empty, but here there are no corners or shadows to hide listening ears. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Now he hesitated a moment, his head thrust forward as though listening, then his hand covered the owl from view, producing instead of the knock which I expected, an icy peal of clear chimes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth full of the taste of muscadine, listening to the pine needles rustling loudly in their anticipation of rain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old grandmaster had many tales to tell, and listening to him was like reading a book of chess history. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He inhaled, taking in the familiar smell of old books all around him, listening to the faint creak of his chair as he shifted in it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All along, while listening to Chubs and Liam try to talk me down, some part of me had been trying to work through the argument I had overheard. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After everyone left, we sat there side by side without words for many minutes, still listening to the laughing outside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their university escort was sitting, eyes closed, listening to her Discman, waiting for the boys to board so she could go home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I remembered him tucking me in, and us listening to a person speaking Greek on the shortwave radio, and him telling me a story about New York’s sixth borough. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the forefront of my mind was the fact that Stanchion’s unspoken advice might be worth listening to. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Where is he?” said Ron, who wasn’t listening to a word of this conversation, but looking through the crowd to see what had become of Krum. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the playground at noon I attached myself to a group of older boys and followed them about, listening to their talk, asking countless questions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed almost distracted, as if he were listening to something I couldn’t hear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And listening to my grandmother telling it, making up bits as she went along about the imaginary Mr. Palmer who was so set on exercising the underside of children’s forearms, I had to laugh again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the tears trying to come, trying to work their way out, but I distract myself by listening to music. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Moving away from the two android females, Isidore groped his way to the door; with his fingers he located the knob, halted there, listening. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I am listening,” said Doon, though his face was still red and the look on his face was stormy. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I bet she didn’t go to sleep listening to Tupac every night. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was listening, and I could hear that I was being judged intelligent. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The truth is,” she said, “we were listening to the radio, heard a news report about your father, and then Holmesy here told me she had a crush on you when you were kids.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s Filch,” Harry muttered as they hurried up the stairs and paused, out of sight, listening hard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He stroked her transparent hands, her slender fingers, the shells of her ears, and ran his hands over her neck, listening to the imperceptible sound of the life inside her veins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sparrow quit swapping eyes and watched me steadily with the same one until the chimes ceased, as if he were listening too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have grown up listening to a particular musical tradition, you will automatically have these expectations for a piece of music, even if you are not aware of having them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Thinking about my moms sitting there listening to it ’cause she probably just didn’t want to talk to nobody. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was not long before Ranofer realized he could never increase his skill merely by listening to Heqet’s earnest explanations. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Juanga and Lorena get up and dust the snow off their clothes, but I lie there for a few seconds, listening to the church bells in the distance. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I joined Ruth and Becky at the foot of the staircase, the three of us listening with big cars as Lockton and Madam shouted at each other. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, a Lithuanian lab assistant slept next to the camera on a cot, listening to its constant tick, making sure it stayed stable through the night, waking every hour to refocus it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We got very good at listening for the sound of airplane engines and distinguishing the sounds of enemy bombers from friendly cargo transports. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was awake before his eyes were open, listening to a noise that was near. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"We are listening!" cried the audience who were now jumping up and down in their chairs with excitement. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Was he listening to you in the bathroom?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Why are you listening to a trash bag?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The two figures on the hill opposite stopped dead in their tracks, listening to the unbelievable sound as it echoed around the quiet valley. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father and I are sitting at the dining room table listening to the radio. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d suspected someone was listening to me practice from the courtyard, but it had been nearly two span before I caught a glimpse of her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can almost fall asleep while sitting on the bar stool at her kitchen counter and listening to her, and I wonder if I could do that here today. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

August, who was listening in, said, “Blue,” and winked at me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They paused outside, listening, then peered around the corner. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later I lay in my hotel bed, listening to the rain. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if Ray had to shout because of the hail, or because he didn’t think I was listening. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

All those nights listening to the Mellower had given him the skills he needed now. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I walked down the hall to hang out with Max before the bell rang, listening to him go on and on about that phone game he was playing with Jared. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They waited in the darkness, listening to the footsteps running up and down, beams of light flying along the street from the Death Eaters’ searching wands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I basically hung out in my room, listening to tunes and trying to catch some zees after the four A.M. wake-up call. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He waited in the grove, listening to the enormous sound of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy could feel every single beat, as they crouched there side by side, listening for sounds from above. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So it’s Friday morning and I'm sitting in history listening to Mr. Penny, the history teacher, talk about all the arguments they had before they set up the Constitution. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He has been watching, listening, and trying to plan. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They laughed softly and easily, listening to the commentator’s voice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We rearranged my dad’s pillows and talked uselessly about college basketball and the weather outside, knowing that he was listening, though it exhausted him now to speak. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When he had recovered sufficiently, he resumed spending his days at El Patron’s side, listening to the old man ramble. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why settle for something less challenging? My daughter can sing any American song after listening to it two or three times, but have you ever seen an American who can master a Tagore song?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And those that came behind and did not fall stood at the cliff’s edge, listening. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman says she likes to take a hot bath while listening to music. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I sat for a long time with my eyes shut, listening to the rain and the wipers. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The way I know is one of my visitors, Mateo Nuflez, had just begun listening to the Sacred Rosary on his little radio when he heard the terrible crash. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I almost wish I were home with Nora, watching Bravo and listening for the door and stuffing my face with fun-size Kit Kats. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Still, the captain must be somewhere, listening to every word I say. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Harry kept his eyes on his ginger roots, listening hard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the first nights I’d always lie up in bed, listening to the husky whisper of the dry August corn in the fields. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Amaka used to play with us when I first came here, but now she spends her time listening to African music and dreaming unrealistic dreams.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Listening, always listening, and I kept going, explaining Joey Pow and finally Rock and his gang. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He sat in the far corner of the courtyard munching some leftovers Maa had given him and listening to the poem, a dreamy expression on his face. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nudge my skiff on the bank and stand ankle-deep in the cool water listening to the quiet. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we sat listening to the katydids, singing loud as they came out into the wetness, the moon lit up a layer of fog below us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The boy tilted one ear up at a low-hanging fruit, almost as if he were listening to it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I figured he was listening to the radio announcer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He waited, listening to the distant shouts—and at last the lights blinked, blinked again, and came on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him, but I definitely wasn't listening. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I’m standing behind Coach as he goes over the game plan—how to beat Brixton, tonight’s opponent—but I’m not really listening at all. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Weren’t you listening last night, Octavian? Mars was pretty clear. We’re going to the land beyond the gods—Alaska.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A dozen times during the night Wilbur woke and stared into the blackness, listening to the sounds and trying to figure out what time it was. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I spend nights on my pallet wide-awake and shivering in the dark, listening to the howling of the seemingly endless storms that rage outside. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

What matters is that people must be listening, that ordinary citizens must have radios, that they seem to need to hear from each other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That dont begin it. How about the dime or fifteen cents you’ll spend for a dam two cent box of candy or something. How about the time you’re wasting right now, listening to that band.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bad day when three or four men were not standing around the forge, listening to Samuel’s hammer and his talk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rocking, rocking, listening to Plum’s occasional chuckles, Eva let her memory spin, loop and fall. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived at Oppie’s house to find fifteen employees of various Berkeley labs seated on the floor, listening to two labor organizers outline their goals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Inside North Korea, the penalty for listening to these stations can be ten years in a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I pause in my sweeping and sit down beside him on the sofa, listening to his words slip out, soft and thoughtful, painting pictures of temples and pyramids. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time, instead of going back into the kitchen, she was standing in the doorway, listening to the conversation. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around to see if Salvador felt the same way, but he was listening raptly. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

What you’re doing now is listening to me, in the parlor of your mind, but also speaking to yourself, thinking about the parts of me you like or the parts that aren’t funny enough. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wandered about the grass, looking at the little trees with glowing blossoms and listening to the birds that flew and sang in the branches as prettily as nightingales. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The closet was a good place for listening, almost as good as Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed the ladder into the white cupola and sat listening to the rain, watching the light come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Behold your empire. Wiping crumbs from a counter and listening to the same tired jokes from your nonpaying customers.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Margo didn’t play any sports, but she liked to run—I sometimes saw her running by herself listening to music in Jefferson Park. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Scott doesn’t appear to be listening any longer. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two: I am listening. I listened enough to hear my child rapping like a thug!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Watching the children struggling up the stairs with their tree, listening to their voices, still so babylike, she got these ideas about education. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ears were perked, like he was listening to something Conner said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He said it so often the other captives began to call him All-for-Joffrey whenever the guards weren't listening. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Over the preceding weeks he’d sat, tucked away, next to the couch in the living room, listening while Habib and Uncle Amin called their relatives and friends in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Normally, she would have taken control of a situation like this, directing the care of Lola, reassuring her mother, listening to the doctor’s advice, consulting with Leon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I glance at the door, more from paranoia than an actual concern that someone is listening in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Wiping the nose of some wailing newborn or collecting newspapers or listening to presentations from army nurses or darning another sock? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I caved in. The other day, Nina said she’d noticed all of the requiem masses I’d been listening to. She suggested some others. Here’s the hideous thing.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The listening men obeyed him, climbing in to settle on their benches by the rowlocks, while he stood watchful by the stern. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His attitude was that of one who goes through the motions of listening in order to deceive himself as to what he already hears. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, you can tell me. I know anyway. I was listening. He’s mad to leave it here, but what can I do?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now, I got so excited that I jumped up from the table and went to the door and stood listening. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just kept watching the screen and listening to her stupid comments. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he walked in the door, Dad started talking excitedly and nervously to Mom and Grandma, not even caring that we children were listening. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had she lain in her bed listening to T. Ray snore, reciting it while she fell asleep, wishing to God she could run away with Robert Frost? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something I’ve been wanting to talk to you lot about. It’s just that back there, at the Cottages, it’s impossible. Everyone always listening in.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors spread as friends and family shared news of the attack, alarming people who had not been listening to the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I won’t blow up the house,” said Harry, but they weren’t listening. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Tariq was sitting at the board too, in turns watching the match, then listening in on the political chat at the adjacent table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Robin was talking to the spotter pilot over the radio, and Ray was listening on the headphones to see if he could pick up the shark’s ping. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t reading, or listening to music, or doing anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in a listening post as an erfasser, or a radio monitor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I mind a lot. Why do you have to keep listening all the time? I hate the radio. I hate it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even listening, with her face all gummed up with paint and her eyes hard as a fice dog’s. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries listening in on his mom’s meetings, but they can’t hold his attention, and Zahra bans him from the West Wing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Teresita never said anyone would help us. She just said we had to sing the song of the birds. I know. I was listening, and I have a photogenic memory.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And they talk about you when they think you’re not listening—as if somehow it’s your sense of hearing that’s been affected, not your mind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Worried that Ishtar might somehow be listening, I changed the subject. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We bend low beneath the neatly clipped bush, listening for the footsteps of concealed security guards. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lie still, listening to the constant, distant wail of sirens coming from somewhere outside, my eyes fixed on an old water stain on the ceiling. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the stairs in the dark listening to my father’s father—my Poppy—talk to Dad in our living room about “bloody Mingo,” a county just up the road from us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cringe while listening to her describe the Hideout, a place that’s supposed to be only for the kids in the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was looking at the side of her face, listening to the sweet, throaty cadences of her voice, when I was jolted from my musing by a sharp exclamation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The final straw came one evening while she sat downstairs on the phone listening to my dean from Riverdale explain why they were placing me on academic and disciplinary probation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was listening to records because he had his arm across the seat and was beating his hand up and down like it was a drum. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The only thing that soothes the horrendous pain is listening to music." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pace back and forth, listening to her words. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I could still ask her a few questions and enjoy watering the plants or listening to the radio with her. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She never took notes, never seemed to be listening to the teacher. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

How can we leave all that we've known— me on Daddy's lap in the early evening, listening to Hope and Dell tell stories about their lives at the small school a mile down the road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But she soon became bored and she would sit through the interviews, half listening and half present. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, listening to radio broadcasts ranked as Americans’ favorite recreation—more popular than movies, books, or sports events. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She felt she shouldn’t be listening, but how else would they know when to ask about the dragon’s pearl? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was silent for a moment, probably listening to the suddenly uneven pounding of my heart. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even the past could be different from the past, because my memories could change: I no longer remembered Mother listening in the kitchen while Shawn pinned me to the floor, pressing my windpipe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes! That would be great! We could play like we used to—out in the open. You could join in our cricket games, and—Naima? Naima! Are you listening?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wart looked out of the window, listening to the thrush’s twice-done song of dew. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friend, standing at the periphery, had been listening and now asked me the same thing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that it was back to scrubbing and scurrying and listening at doors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I sat very still, listening to the registrar, and felt myself get angry. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She used her other senses—listening for the echo of open spaces, feeling for cross-breezes against her face, sniffing for any scent of danger—smoke, or poison, or the stench of demons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"I'm not listening to this. Wash your face." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He steps back and shuts the door, and I stand there, staring, too stunned to feel my own relief, listening to the misery of the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bugs = little listening devices—Population Police hear everything. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said this all quite calmly but I, listening to him, felt a lump growing in the pit of my stomach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We learn to sit up straight, eyes front, faces blank, both feet on the floor, listening to the whack of rubber on cringing flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw hundreds of people listening to me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pulling the covers up to her chin, she lay there listening as her father said goodbye to Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Krajewska drinks hers slowly, listening while I explain that I do go to the cathedral on Na Bramie to pray twice a week. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I lie back, listening to the soaps, and after a little I try finding it again, and my stupid radio will pick up every Chicago station except the one carrying the football game. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Musicians must also respond immediately to their own sound through acute music listening ability, often coordinating with other musicians around them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I play the message a second time, listening to the kindness in his voice, and the tears come. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After going a dozen yards he halted, peering and listening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He would fix himself a TV dinner, open a Coke, and sit on his cot listening to the radio. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie there together, watching the lightning and listening to the thunder, and waiting for the beginning of a rainy dawn. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“And if you were listening with your ears you’d know he was half Indian.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She never offered any opinion or statement, and when a man was talking she gave a vague impression of listening while she went about doing the housework. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to curse her for listening to such lies, then he cursed her for leaving him alone and wanted to know where she had really gone. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I remember lying on that germ-infested cot, listening to the girls talk about me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Adam said almost gaily, “Charles, I been listening. You want to tell me something and you’re walking around it like a terrier around a bush. You better tell before it bites you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I drove home listening to some of the songs we listened to those times when we were infinite. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt for it delicately, listening all the while. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Someone’s playing a guitar on the steps of Low Library, a folk song, but nobody’s listening. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gazing and listening are all right for church, but they sure kill a lot of conversations. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother used to say, “Auntie Ying is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry stopped under the Cloak, peering around, listening, and his mother and father, Lupin and Sirius stopped too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I clicked out of the file and started listening to the meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora listened, and she could feel Ulysses, his body tense and expectant, listening, too. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ron added to Harry as the group of second-year girls who had been listening to his chilling tale departed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could have sworn I was listening to a large crowd outside the house. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t even raise her voice, she knew we’d been listening to everything they were saying. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As director of the junior choir, I’m listening to all the new students this week to assess their talent.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take a guess, since you already know me so well and what I should be listening to?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Teddy apparently didn’t hear him, or wasn’t listening. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a little creepy listening to the singing frogs as it gets darker, but I don’t say anything. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to listening to my mother swap stories and sometimes a bit of local village gossip with her friends. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tucker Mouse had been watching the Bellinis and listening to what they said. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After listening to his mother describe her letter, Wes quickly volunteered to get a job and help out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He remembers lamplit hours in Monsieur Hebrard’s bookshop listening to the first radio he ever heard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mam and Bridey Hannon sit by the fire upstairs in Italy smoking Woodbines, drinking tea, and I sit on the stairs listening. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Matt thought it was like listening to a barnyard full of turkeys. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got tired of listening to the same stories told many times before, I watched our neighbor’s goldfish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Nolan said this is not a research paper. I have to put in textual evidence,” I say as if I’ve been listening to her the whole time. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I lay still, listening, shaking a little, wondering whether the approaching horsemen had seen me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, it was nice to picture all of us watching or listening to the same thing at the same time. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Half the class appears to be listening to me, but a few are doodling or staring out the window, and one kid’s eyes are closed. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Edmond who was listening in a way that other people listen when they can’t quite hear, and I knew he was trying to hear something that wasn’t being said. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But enough about that. You asked about sin and I want to tell you. Are you listening?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hush, Ben, he might hear you,” Lillian said, again casting a quick glance to the stair and listening for his heavy walk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, perhaps in his watching the Villac Uma, the keeper had stopped listening to his fire for a moment. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I scooted a little closer to her and pretended like I was listening to Howard while she opened the paper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to think about all that, but I knew I didn’t want them to catch me out there listening. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Over in the drain pipe Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat were listening too—Harry with his eyes closed like Papa Bellini. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ask forgiveness, repeatedly, was what congregations were mosdy expected to do, all the while listening to choirs and priests singing at great length about the same sentiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He indicated our grown son and daughter, playing dominoes, listening in on our secrets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo brought his thermos into the cockpit, then sat on the port gunnel and sipped green tea, listening into the fog uneasily. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tiller was snoring within minutes, but Sairy lay there, listening to the night sounds. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“For years I’ve been listening to Buddy sound off on the subject of actors,” he said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It made me sadder listening to how Granny done me than when it happened. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the whole time I’ll just be listening to dead air in my ear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But even as I sit, listening to Warren crack jokes about the guys on the courts and other people we know from around our way, I can feel something tugging at me across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Had he confessed to listening to foreign broadcasts? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sanford, Florida, a group of friends—alerted by a neighbor who was listening to the program—gathered together to follow the awful news. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I miss telling her about what I’m reading, what I’m thinking, asking her about work, listening to her carry on about Aunt Joan and whatever drama she’s gotten into. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated just listening to the way perfect English came out of a person in the clothes of a Hasid. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of the drunk Russian guys woke up and sat listening intently too. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were listening intently, and as though looking not at me, but at the pattern of my voice upon the air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was listening intently, but she could hear nothing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The few who were listening lined up shoulder-to-shoulder, locking their shields to form an ox-hide—and-bronze wall, their spears bristling over the top like porcupine quills. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath, listening to the buzz of voices outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly as they talked they were stricken dumb, frozen as it were to listening stones. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, the whole world was listening to my message now. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Roy stirred again and John pushed him away, listening to the silence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She sat down in the gallery by herself, not saying a word, just listening. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Was he not foolish in even listening when Max talked of saving his life? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I listened long after my mom and brother had stopped listening. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Baba and Rahim Khan were drinking tea and listening to the news crackling on the radio. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We stood there listening, the girl careful to keep a hand on my arm and her knife at my side. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"Watching is not seeing, dead girl. The water dancer sees. Come, put down the sword, it is time for listening now" She followed him over to the wall, where he settled onto a bench. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We moved through the streets in silence, listening to the newsman’s descriptions of the crowds gathering at Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my right eye and lay still, listening to the noise of the elevator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was listening hard, his hands still raised, warning them not to talk. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a moment if she was going to try and get up by herself, but she remained still, leaning forward as before, listening intently. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I stood there, looking out at the marsh and listening to all of her sounds: insects buzzing, crickets singing, bubbles popping on the surface. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z