"listen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had said little since Paula's arrival, tending instead to sit back for most of the time, watching and listening impassively.
- The words tore at Kirk's throat, but the doctor listened impassively.
- After listening to them impassively he said there was nothing he could do about their problems.
- Each machine said what it had to say, then listened impassively to the others; and at the end they all agreed.
- Each listened impassively to the other, then, at intervals of perhaps five hundred words, spoke in his turn.
- As he had throughout the trial, Judge Story listened to the arguments impassively.
- Next door, a young man cured of lymphoma two years ago listens impassively to the news that his disease is back.
- By contributing little, listening impassively without showing response or encouragement to the speaker to continue.
- Roland, who had been listening impassively all the while, shook his head.
- The Chairman listened impassively and the others took their cue from him.
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