Sentence examples for kept their ears from inspiring English sources

The night's performers kept their ears open to the other approaches swirling around them.

And northern Chinese peasants wear dog fur caps to keep their ears warm.

An unwritten rule in politics is that freshman legislators should keep their ears and eyes open and their mouths shut.

Then there are the stealth chefs, those who require dedicated diners to keep their ears to the ground, listening for their every move.

Mr. Knezek said that with such a new industry, the best thing for parents was to keep their ears and eyes open.

Jazz musicians are involved in both high art and popular culture: they are intellectually hungry but keep their ears to the ground.

Inside the processing plant in Salinas, where the temperature hovers around 33 degrees Fahrenheit, workers don heavy coats under their work smocks and headbands under their hard hats to keep their ears warm.

Savvy travelers beeline to chatterati gathering places — as in, "We had such fun in Mumbai hanging with the chatterati at Privé" — and keep their ears open for intelligence, e.g. "Have you heard the buzz about art in Naples?

Repeatedly circling the track, riders keep their ears peeled for the jingle-jangle of a bell rung every 10 laps to signal a pell-mell sprint for the line.

In the real world of the 21st century, after all, many musicians run into one another on the circuit of world-music events, and they keep their ears open.

On Saturday, the job of enforcing these rules for the match between England and the United States will fall to a squad of Brazilian referees who will need to keep their ears pricked for words they might not have learned in school.