Sentence examples for barely listen from inspiring English sources

"barely listen" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to listen with little attention or effort. Example: He barely listened to the teacher's instructions and ended up doing the task incorrectly.

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Of those, I barely listen to the first two albums he made and I haven't dug the recent albums out much since they were released.

By the time Pauline finally stops bustling around in an angry funk and tries to tell us something about the future that she envisions for herself, we can barely listen; she has distracted us from the subtleties of the script.

I have a vexed relationship with popular music – so much so that I barely listen at all for years at a time; but my relation with Dylan's art has been consistently intense and rewarding.

However categorized, it was a kind of music I might have ignored at a different time: I go through weeks where I barely listen to anything without a voice that isn't Auto-Tuned, glossed, or coarsened during postproduction.

What's great about the Chemist is that he prowls the deck of his tug, like some punk-rock Ahab, never issuing direct orders but instead simply screaming these two words at his crew: "Do Things!" The good news about "2182 kHz" isn't that the Chemist's men follow his instructions -- they barely listen to him -- but that Masiel does.

I know Wagner from X Factor?" By the time you get round to the first dance, you're so exhausted, angry and bewildered that you can barely listen to music any more, because you're frightened that the radio DJs are ganging up on you to send you subliminal messages about cake toppers.

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The two children barely listened.

I barely listened past the first few sentences.

But even the sex worker, it seemed, was barely listening.

He barely listened before brushing aside my request.

As we talked, I noticed that he was barely listening to my questions.

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