Sentence examples for listen carefully for from inspiring English sources

A lot of silence goes into such work, if you listen carefully for it.

But you have to listen carefully, for those fleeting moments are gone before you know it.

We listen carefully for the honking of their school bus, but it comes late these days, if at all.

Listen carefully for the quick warbling trills of skylarks audible around the clifftops at any time of year.

So I listen carefully for exactly what people are saying, what they're asking about, what their concern is, and I try to be direct when I answer them.

Listen carefully, for instance, after a peeved Hannah has told Iris, "I love you, but I don't like you," and you should hear, from the siblings in the auditorium, a collective, snuffled sigh of recognition.

She listened carefully for a lull in traffic.

This year I did my usual routine of scouring reviews, listening carefully for buzz.

I listened carefully for more stories after that, and heard rumors.

In those years, you searched each face for what it might unwittingly disclose and you listened carefully for nuances and clues.

As the company announced its latest quarterly figures, members of the aviation press were listening carefully for whether its bosses reconfirmed their plan to be turning out ten 787s a month by the end of 2013.