Sentence examples for cursory listen from inspiring English sources

"cursory listen" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to listen or pay attention briefly and without much thought or consideration. Example: I gave the new album a cursory listen, but I wasn't really impressed with the music. In this sentence, the speaker is saying that they listened to the new album briefly, but they didn't give it their full attention and therefore did not form a strong opinion about it.

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Even a cursory listen makes it clear he's not the one worth copying.

Reznor is the same, as a cursory listen to the DS's Closer will reveal.

Pay a cursory listen and you may think this is just more electro-indie with angular rhythms and shimmery synths.

Even a cursory listen to her music will assure you that the now mature Partridge has transformed herself into an assured singer of hearty standards.

Even a cursory listen to one of Gesualdo's madrigals, say, can convince anyone that few works composed since then have been so thorny and searching.

A cursory listen to David Rodigan's radio show on BBC 1xtra will find him playing reggae made in Israel, Croatia, Canada and beyond.

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He has rough hands and an easy smile and captains a hundred-year-old boat that he takes out to the Channel Islands the long way, a 6-hour trip each leg during which, according to some cursory Instagram snooping, he prefers to listen to old-time country and western music.

Torre listened to cursory descriptions of the recent memo today from reporters and surmised that the two incidents involving Clemens were "what caused this thing".

Listen, say, to Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall," and you see only a track listing and a link to a cursory biography of the King of Pop.

Listen, listen.

Listen, listen, listen, listen".

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