listening

Example Sentences

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The gold rush in music rights investing has been fueled in no small part by streaming services bringing artists’ work to ever larger audiences on repeat listening in markets around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

I’m not listening to the scary music—you are.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

We call this the listening to learn mindset.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Rather than listening to staff, the board had relied on commissioning external reviews to tell them what to do, but then failed to make improvements.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

We used to listen to the radio every evening, Mutti and I. All through the war we had done this, listening for news from the particular battlefront where we thought Papi was fighting.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo