"listen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

listen verbo

verbo + listen
Kolokacji: 46
sit listening • stop listening • start listening • stand listening • enjoy listening • grow up listening • refuse to listen • try to listen • ...
listen + preposición
Kolokacji: 32
listen to • listen up • listen for • listen without • listen with • ...
listen + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 86
listen carefully • listen intently • listen closely • listen attentively • listen patiently • listen quietly • listen hard • listen well • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 22
(1) carefully, cautiously
Kolokacji: 2
(4) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(6) hard, idly, alertly, live
Kolokacji: 4
(7) well, most, truly
Kolokacji: 3
(8) politely, courteously
Kolokacji: 2
(9) silently, briefly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) eagerly, avidly, halfheartedly
Kolokacji: 3
2. listen avidly = słuchaj chciwym uchem listen avidly
3. listen halfheartedly = słuchać halfheartedly listen halfheartedly
  • It was subdued little troop that negotiated the descent listened halfheartedly to the guide's descriptions information.
  • That evening, after supper, the guests were largely gathered in the music room, halfheartedly listening to Lady Merridale play the piano.
  • She twirled a delicate crystal goblet of wine between her fingers, only halfheartedly listening to their bickering.
  • McCoy, who had been listening halfheartedly at best, suddenly straightened up and went back over what Spock had said, sorting through the technicalities.
  • On the front lawn, parents and relatives listen halfheartedly, stare at the ground, doze in their chairs.
  • Roger Brooks listened halfheartedly as Fox marshaled his arguments.
  • Wren listened halfheartedly, more interested in the tale of how the Elves had come to Morrowindl.
  • Toying with a beer, I listened halfheartedly to the raucous conversation of a group of newly arrived FACs, still awaiting their duty assignments.
  • The three adults, preferring a more placid mode of digestion, lay back in armchairs, halfheartedly listening to a Haydn symphony on gramophone records.
(11) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(12) hardly, barely, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(15) raptly, happily
Kolokacji: 2
(17) impassively, stoically
Kolokacji: 2
(18) passively, actively
Kolokacji: 2
(19) spellbound, entranced
Kolokacji: 2
(20) dutifully, obediently
Kolokacji: 2
(21) tensely, nervously
Kolokacji: 2
(22) wide-eyed, incredulously
Kolokacji: 2

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