listener

[ˈlɪsənər]

Definition:
1. Someone who listens attentively.

Use 'listener' in a sentence:

1. Each kind of music can stir a listener and evoke a response in him.
2. Be a better listener yourself, and give others opportunities to participate in the conversation by inviting them with questions or requests to share their own experiences or thoughts.
3. For comparison, let's say you wanted to "jam" a conversation between two people — all you'd need to do is yell in the listener's ear.
4. The listener will feel confident and in control.
5. My role as the host is kind of to be a listener, so I will ask questions that other people would want to ask.
6. Paying attention to the listener is an important part of having a conversation that's interesting to both parties.
7. The speaker hammered his point home with examples that the listeners could not deny.
8. The listener deciphers what you said according to his own reference of blueness and transmits it to you in his own cipher.
9. The listener must hear the sounds to figure out what the speaker means.
10. We are all faithful listeners to the program.
11. Dr. Brian was a good listener.
12. The radio station had an open line on which listeners could call up to discuss various issues.
13. A good listener will help you a lot when you study.
14. I'm bowdlerizing it — just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
15. You are a good listener and have many friends.
16. Now, erm, obviously some of our listeners may have some ideas.
17. "You can't have a successful marriage without being a good listener," Jay says in a confessional.
18. Being a good listener can contribute to an excellent relationship with other people.
19. Most of our listeners are in the 25-39 demographic.
20. Let your team feel you're a good listener.
21. He attracted listeners' attention with his speech.
22. Each week Dr Buczacki chooses a listener's question and gives a detailed answer.
23. The incident made the listeners burst into laughter.
24. The speaker's words electrified the listeners.
25. The singer charmed her listeners with her sweet voice.
26. They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits.
27. Don't let the listener fall asleep.
28. The announcer asked listeners to guess where he was speaking from.
29. To be honest, I had never realized that he was such a good listener.
30. Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of a minority group in North America.
31. Was I not also a listener?
32. Music can induce a meditative state in the listener.
33. Prepare your listener for the news Use words to introduce what you 're going to say, like "I'm really sorry, but …" or "I'm afraid I' ve got some bad news ．"
34. The speaker got his point home, and many of his listeners were ashamed.
35. Good listeners even sit in an open way: relaxed, arms loose.
36. If the listener is not paying attention, it's your sign to shorten the story or change direction.
37. Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence.
38. Dr Brian was a good listener.
39. You'll see as the semester progresses and you start learning more about musical forms, you'll become a more adept listener.
40. Fenton was a good listener, and his questions were germane.
41. After being a listener for two years, he decided to record himself reading books.
42. She had millions of listeners snapping their fingers to her first single.
43. Learn to be a good listener.
44. I prefer to face my listener.
45. Using the so-called Maxim of Relevance we can infer things as well, or rather the speaker can imply things and the listener can make inferences.
46. Listeners have been invited to phone in to pick the winner.
47. 90 per cent of listeners had stayed with the programme when it changed its time slot.
48. If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective.
49. As Princeton Professor Alan Blinder says, "She's smart as a whip, deeply logical, willing to argue but also a good listener."
50. The music soared to the rafters, carrying its listeners' hearts.
51. The radio station was besieged with calls from angry listeners.
52. I felt it politic to keep my peace and play the part of the attentive listener.
53. Afterward, the listener can ask nonthreatening questions to clarify the speaker's position.
54. They raised$ 630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits.
55. From a simple gesture or the speaker's tone of voice, the Japanese listener gleans the whole meaning.
56. I'm a regular listener to her show.