Sentence examples for while we listened from inspiring English sources

But they spoke Swedish, while we listened to Michael Feingold's English translation through headphones.

Sunday nights we ate sandwiches at a small rolling table next to the radio while we listened to Jack Benny at six p.m.

Years later, while we listened to the Exxon Valdez clean-up operations over sideband radio, he explained what he called the clean-up problem.

Weekends were one long adult revel while Tony and I persuaded riotous uncles to kick footballs with us, and gazed at the bookless walls of our nursery while we listened to the music from downstairs.

Then he elaborated for ten minutes while we listened, glanced, made notes, riffled the textbook to find refuge in print, some semblance of meaning that might be roughly equivalent to what he was saying.

Once, she had me sit with her in her office while we listened on speaker phone to a lawyer who was grilling Bellow on a short story he had written, sniffing for any possible case for libel.

But all the while we listen, knowing one night we will hear footsteps in the hallway.

There is a long pause while we listen to Pulp.

So Eve hops in the Land Rover and comes on over, while we listen to her thoughts, and her philosophy.

"There's a landline here," the man says to the face on the screen while we listen in.

Stories tell us, not us them, while we listen to the drag of pebbles on the tide, and become absorbed in the great fact of the English Channel.