Sentence examples for he listened at from inspiring English sources

He listened at the slightly opened door, hearing her voice despite the kitchen shouts and the clatter rushing past his ears.

For hours, he listened at his basement window, nodding his head to the rhythmic tempo of the girl's headboard hitting the wall, the gasps and grunts and growls.

He listened at the walls, and through the sound of spasmodic barking imagined he heard a scrape of furniture or a groan or a sigh that could be human, but no voices to give proof, until the morning, when the volunteers began to arrive.

There, on the feast of St. Matthias, February 24 , 1208 he listened at mass to the account of the mission of Christ to the Apostles from the Gospel According to Matthew (10 7, 9 11): "And as you go, preach the message, 'The kingdom is at hand!'…Take no gold, nor silver, nor money in your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; for the labourer deserves his food.

Friedman not only listened, he listened at any hour.

He claims that he listens at the door as a "small precaution to avoid knocking at some inopportune moment".

Rivera had urged Proctor to straighten out his life, and Proctor wanted him to know he had listened at last.

Now he listened, smiled at me and said, "Awesome!" That broke the ice.

"He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation," she wrote in her autobiography, "In Praise of Imperfection" (1988).

He listened, and at the end said he hadn't known what atonal music was and that he had learned something.

Early rock Bobby Vee, Johnnie Ray, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis was what he listened to at night on the radio as a kid in Hibbing, Minnesota, and what he first attempted to play.