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Listen in   /lˈɪsən ɪn/   Listen
Listen in

verb
1.
Listen quietly, without contributing to the conversation.
2.
Listen without the speaker's knowledge.  Synonym: eavesdrop.






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"Listen in" Quotes from Famous Books



... found himself thus treated, Amador drew from his bag a knife, and dexterously extricated himself. Then he began to listen in order to find out the ways of the place, and heard the master of the house laughing with his maid-servant. Suspecting their manoeuvres, he waited till the moment when the lady of the house should be alone in bed, and made his way into her ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... of the walls. Betty liked to slip away into Miss Stone's room—and stand very still, looking about her, hardly breathing. It was like a church—only clearer and sweeter and freer—perhaps it was the woods—with the wind whispering up there. She always held her breath to listen in Miss Stone's room; and when she came back, to her own, child's room—with its canopied bed and royal draperies and colour and charm, she held the stillness and whiteness of Miss Stone's room in her heart—it was like a bird nestling there. Betty ...
— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee

... see through a mist of tears men as trees walking; it is only in the land which is very far off and yet very near that we shall have fulness of sight and see the King in His beauty; and I cannot think that any listening ears listen in vain. ...
— The Roadmender • Michael Fairless

... time they would listen in awed silence to anything Michael said, though the picture was perhaps one too many for most of them. Sam, however, heard with approval, and afterwards went up reverently and laid his finger on the crimson and the purple and the gold ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill

... strange, sensitive, oriental harp with a dozen strings, of which the musician touches but one. The other strings through sympathetic vibration furnish an undertone almost like an aeolian harmony. You must listen in a still place to catch the mystic accompaniment. So it was in Bedient's mind. Beth Truba played upon the single string, and the others glorified her with their shadings. And the plaint from all humanity was in that undertone, as if ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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