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Sentence Examples

After he listened war plans of his officers, Karadjordje ordered attack!

He listened to the voices and they chose you.

They have listened how life came back to me and gone away praising.

I don’t understand, sorry. Have you ever really listened to your wife?

«I have listened to your confession.»

We listened to her sing as we lay side by side.

We’ve lost everything, because we listened to you!

You must have listened to him or you wouldn’t have left me that way. Flat.

Dwight Winthrop knew that from the cradle on through all her years Jan Ashe listened to one mentor, only one.

Darling, you’ve always listened to me.

Some of you have listened to my father for 20 years, and you can’t remember one word he said to you, but you’ll remember this:

I finished, I waited, I listened… but the applause did not come.

And we watched the moon play across the walls, and listened to that gondolier singing as he paddled down the canal.

If you’d listened, this wouldn’t have happened.

But I’ve always listened to Lola recite. Forced her to, in fact. Watched her dictions, her postures, you understand?

So we stayed home and we listened to it on-a the radio.

I’ve listened to your excuses for the last time.

I wish I’d listened years ago when someone told me he loved me.

I’ve listened toyou all telling’ how good your boys were.

I have always listened to you with awe, Oxenstierna.

I listened in on the extension.

But thank heavens she finally listened to reason.

If you had listened to me, at least we’d have ships and men with us.

I remember when I first crossed the threshold of my young manhood… and listened to the sweet murmurings of my heart.

I couldn’t stand that… so I listened to Alfred, that’s all.

Oh, so you listened, huh?

But I listened closely and this is what I heard

Yes, it’s the best dinner I ever listened to.

Aye, Dick listened the minute he heard there was treasure.

I listened to Mr. Oliver Webb, who told me some sob story… that you were gonna commit suicide unless I took pity on you.

Sonya lives on the other side of it. I listened.

I listened far too often…

If my daughter had listened to them, she would have gone wrong long ago.

I wish I had listened to you.

Where would you be if I’d listened to his teachings?

By the way, we haven’t listened to your favorite tune tonight.

I’ve just listened to your amusing conversation with your mirror image perhaps I might be able to help you

I listened to all the childhood memories… I care to hear for one night.

Anyway, I followed them and listened in.

For the first time since I was a child, I listened to the voices… of women.

But I listened, Domini, thinking I might be able to help him.

We listened to the drums.

If you’ve ever listened to me, listen to me now.

I should have listened to my inner voice but it isn’t too late yet thank God

Oh, if you people had all listened to me.

We listened to him two days before a barrage came.

Sentences ending with listened

• His companion mean while laid his hand to his ear, and listened. [10]
• Well, sometimes when we have met since, I have told you the same story, and you’ve kept your promise and listened. [11]
• The dark form was a mere blot upon the lighter darkness of the room, but she saw the turning of the head, and felt and knew how the eyes looked and the ears listened. [12]
• Kaid’s face was turned away as he listened. [11]
• There was a tremor in her voice, and to that alone I listened. [9]
• He went softly to the door and listened. [11]
• Pierre went up to the circle that had formed round the speaker and listened. [2]
• So he had to submit; he drew his seat up to the table, and took up a lump of modeling-wax to keep his restless fingers employed while he listened. [10]
• He mechanically stooped to pick up a stone for a weapon, and listened. [10]
• There is nothing to be feared from the utterance of any seeming heresy to which you may have listened. [3]

Short sentences using listened

• I waited, listened, waited. [5]
• So I listened to you. [11]
• Philip had listened to reason. [10]
• Nevertheless, he listened to her. [10]
• They listened this time. [9]
• Wolf listened in surprise. [10]
• The princess listened, smiling. [2]
• How attentively the others listened! [10]
• She stopped and listened. [5]
• I whooped and listened. [5]

Sentences containing listened two or more times

• He was listening to the general’s report—which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo-Zaymishche—as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war. [2]
• I listened and listened. [11]
• He awoke to his inadequacy, to the fact that all these men to whom he talked, listened, and only listened, and treated him with a gentleness which was almost pity—as one might a woman. [11]
• The candidate stepped forward and listened to one sentence, then made another move forward and listened to other words, and at last was welcomed to all the privileges conferred by the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, which was announced as being bestowed upon him. [6]
• He watched the flies on the wall abstractedly; he listened to the early peripatetic salesmen crying their wares in the streets leading to the Palace; he stroked his cadaverous cheek with yellow fingers; he listened anxiously for a footstep. [11]
• While playing with Fay or conversing with Jane he seemed to be possessed of another self that watched with cool, roving eyes, that listened, listened always as if the murmuring amber stream brought messages, and the moving leaves whispered something. [13]
• Katharina, who had been chilled with apprehensions and a thrill of awe, as she listened to Medea’s song, listened to every word with anxious attention; what Medea said—how she described Orion—that was more wonderful than anything else, beyond all she had believed possible. [10]

More example sentences with the word listened in them

• I listened to you, but I resisted you. [9]
• I listened to you when you told me lies as to how it would ruin him . [9]
• Let him tell you how I listened to his vows of love. [10]
• It is hard work to make a speech when you have listened to compliments from the powers in authority. [5]
• Charley heard her words, for the window was open, and he listened and watched now with an infinite relief in his look. [11]
• A messenger carried word to Szczepanik in the pavilion, and one could see the distressed amazement in his face as he listened to the tale. [5]
• Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
• Princess Mary listened without understanding him; she led him to the house, offered him lunch, and sat down with him. [2]
• He listened silently, without the quiver of an eye-lash, or a word of questioning, until his men had pitched their tents. [10]
• The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
• I have listened with the greatest pleasure to the compliments which the chairman has paid to Mr. Rogers and that road of his to-night, and I hope some of them are deserved. [5]
• The trustees listened with the greatest candor to all these gratuitous hints. [6]
• The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre’s huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
• They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
• Murat’s face beamed with stupid satisfaction as he listened to «Monsieur de Bal-macheve. [2]
• The Colonel listened with many exclamations, slapping his knee from time to time as she proceeded. [9]
• He also listened with keen attention when the scientists finally discussed in low tones what they had perceived, and caught the words, «White scar on the cornea,» «leucoma,» and «operation. [10]
• Miss Cynthia listened with involuntary interest to her stories of school and school-mates. [6]
• She had listened with increasing uneasiness to the youth who, as she knew, had been cheated. [10]
• Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
• Ledscha had listened with increasing disappointment. [10]
• He covered it with his own so quickly that she left it there for a moment, as though paralyzed, while she listened to the first serious words he had ever addressed to her. [9]
• Touching the glass with his cheek, he listened again. [12]
• Johnny Hedges went with him occasionally, and Henry Schneider, the bill clerk, and I listened eagerly to their experiences, afterwards confiding them to Tom…. [9]
• Els had listened with eyes dilating in horror. [10]
• She now listened with eager interest, sometimes completing Hermon’s acknowledgments by an explanatory or propitiating word, as the leeches subjected him to a rigid examination, but the latter felt that his statements were not to serve curiosity, but an honest desire to aid him. [10]
• Sonya listened silently with downcast eyes to the countess’ cruel words, without understanding what was required of her. [2]
• The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
• He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing. [2]
• Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
• He had listened with affable condescension to the complaint of a landed proprietor, whose cattle had been driven off for the king’s army, and had promised that his case should be enquired into. [10]
• Fascinated, I listened with a sickening sensation. [9]
• Every man in whose veins flowed Egyptian blood listened to him attentively, took pleasure in his projects, and was quite ready to do his utmost to enhance the glories of this ceremonial, in which every one was to take part either active or passive. [10]
• The rabble of whom he had thought so scornfully, what a transformation seemed to have been wrought in them by the power of the Most High, since he had listened to old Eliab’s tale! [10]
• And she, to whom all that Orion had to say was addressed, listened to him not only with deep attention, but in a way which showed the merchant that she cared even more for the speaker than for what he was so eager in expressing. [10]
• But the Emperor, who until then had listened to De Soto’ here interrupted him to confide the unfortunate suspicion which had been aroused in him the day before. [10]
• And Mr. King, who listened attentively, finally joined in with the questioners, and said, «Captain, what is the average price of land down in this part of Florida by the—gallon? [4]
• Only the man who had the next bed, a stout Uhlan, continued to sit on his bed, gloomily frowning and smoking a pipe, and little one-armed Tushin still listened, shaking his head disapprovingly. [2]
• Shrewd country delegates who had listened to the Champion’s speeches and had come to the capital prepared to vote for purity, had been observing the movements since yesterday, of Mr. Tooting and Mr. Wading with no inconsiderable interest. [9]
• A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite’s, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
• Fawdor listened a while, and then went on, waving his hand to the door as he began: «Think! [11]
• Erasmus listened silently while Wolf eagerly made these statements; but when the latter closed with the declaration that the evangelical faith would never attain the same power of elevating hearts, he interrupted the knight with the exclamation, «We shall have to wait for that! [10]
• To all of which Polly Ann listened with conscious pride, and replied with sallies. [9]
• She heard the wheels of the carriage on the circle—yet she listened to them die away. [9]
• He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, «So you are still at that silly business! [2]
• Even those who were most under the influence of wine, listened to their king in a kind of unconscious obedience. [10]
• Gaston lay reading,—they were in the shade of the cliff,—while Andree listened to the Breton tell the legends of the coast. [11]
• That night we went down the lightning-rod a little after ten, and took one of the candles along, and listened under the window-hole, and heard Jim snoring; so we pitched it in, and it didn’t wake him. [5]
• Hermon knew him well, for he had listened eagerly in the Museum to the lectures of the famous Herophilus, and his image also had stamped itself upon his soul. [10]
• And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers’ hands by the middle of July. [5]
• He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited. [2]
• With what edification we, too, listened to the old Minorite whom we picked up by the wayside, at the tavern where we usually found pleasure in nothing but drinking, gambling, shouting, and singing! [10]
• The courtyard where we learned to manage a steed and use our weapons, the hall where we listened to the wandering minstrels, in ruins! [10]
• Pierre pushed his way into the middle of the group, listened, and convinced himself that the man was indeed a liberal, but of views quite different from his own. [2]
• I stood and watched the mills and the yards, and listened to the saws, and looked at the great slide, and the logs on the river: and I said ever to myself that it was all mine— all. [11]
• Not only Carnac was stirred by the question, for Barouche, who had listened to his foe’s speech with admiring anxiety, was startled. [11]
• Fulkerson said it was not often the colonel found such a good listener; generally nobody listened but Mrs. Leighton, who thought his ideas were shocking, but honored him for holding them so conscientiously. [8]
• For I have wandered through thy flowery woods; Have roamed and read near Tallapoosa’s stream; Have listened to Tallassee’s warring floods, And wooed on Coosa’s side Aurora’s beam. [5]
• Everywhere these obstinate veterans listened serenely to the rumbling of the volcanoes under them, and said it was nothing. [5]
• I recited them very much as I had done the night before, and I warrant you, my dears, that they listened with more zest and eagerness than did Mr. Walpole. [9]
• The company listened very civilly to these remarks, whether they agreed with them or not. [6]
• I listened to various anecdotes, balanced evidence against evidence, and drew an inference. [14]
• The princess as usual spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. [2]
• They cleaned him up, they fed him, they listened to the mournful music of his repentances, they got him his situation again. [5]
• He was pointing up to the palace, and seemed to be speaking of some alterations, to which talk the other listened impatiently. [4]
• I followed her up the aisle until she disappeared in the high pew, and then I sat beside my grandfather and thought of her, nor listened to a word of Mr. Allen’s sermon. [9]
• Both listened intently, until the captain broke out. [9]
• Thus, if an unthinking and excited community had been listened to instead of the arguments of counsel, a poor crazy creature would have been held to a fearful responsibility for a mere freak of madness. [5]
• She listened, then turned her face to Louis. [11]
• She did not turn instantly, but with the aboriginal instinct, listened, as it were, with her body; but presently faced about—to Hawley. [11]
• The senators sat trembling on their antique seats of gilt ivory, the relics of departed splendor imitated from those of the Roman senators, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders while they listened to a letter which had just reached them from the hadi. [10]
• Realising that the trap-door must be open, he listened for a second and was instantly conscious of some one in the room. [11]
• Up in the tower Dicky had listened intently, and as the speech proceeded his features contracted; once he gripped the arm of Renshaw. [11]
• But he came too late, the spirit of the poor lady was quite clouded, and she listened to him without any interest while he strove to restore her to courage and to recall her wandering mind. [10]
• And in fact Toll, to whom he went to communicate the news, immediately began to expound his plans to a general sharing his quarters, until Konovnitsyn, who listened in weary silence, reminded him that they must go to see his Highness. [2]
• When Valmond was told, he listened with a better understanding. [11]
• And I listened to your sermon intently. [9]
• He was listened to with sympathy and respect—but nothing was done! [9]
• If the man to whom he had listened could pour the light into the dark corners of other men’s souls, he, John Hodder, felt the same hot spark within him,—despite the dark corners of his own! [9]
• When he got to where they were, he began unfolding his secret, and they listened moodily till at last they saw the «point» he was driving at, and then they set up a war-whoop of applause and said it was «splendid! [5]
• Alexander listened attentively to what was said to him and, bending his head, smiled pleasantly. [2]
• Tom never listened to this one at all, but set there thinking and thinking, miles and miles away. [5]
• Melissa had listened to this information with mixed feelings. [10]
• Maria sometimes listened to the young lady in surprise, and there was something in Georg’s manner that vexed her. [10]
• I have listened to the touching experiences of the Bearded Lady, whose rough cheeks belie her susceptible heart. [6]
• He listened anxiously to the sounds in the distance, and fancied at first that he heard the Alexandrian’s footstep, and then that he heard loud words and suppressed groans coming from his cave. [10]
• She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
• She listened sympathisingly to the servant’s lamentation over the marvellous change which had taken place in Heinz since his horse was killed under him. [10]
• He listened imperturbably to the outbursts against the Border Ruffian, and smiled when Mr. Abner Reed, in an angry passion, asked him to declare whether or not he was a friend of the Divine Institution. [9]
• We had listened to the notes of the birds in the Thiergarten; but our mother, the tutor, the placards, our nice clothing, prohibited our following the feathered songsters into the thickets. [10]
• Ingolby had listened to the music with a sense of being swayed by a wind which blew from all quarters of the compass at once. [11]
• She listened earnestly to the mosaic-worker, who had come close up to her, and officiously mentioned the names of the most important personages as they went past. [10]
• The abbot listened to the magistrate’s complaint very quietly. [10]
• They had listened to the lies which the bad birds had told of the Big Knives, they had taken their presents. [9]
• Melissa listened anxiously to the heated discussion which had already become a vehement quarrel. [10]
• I have listened to the guns of Five Forks, where Sheridan and Warren bore their own colors in the front of the charge, I was with Mr. Lincoln while the battle of Petersburg was raging, and there were tears in his eyes. [9]
• We have listened to the firing on the skirmish lines for a long time, and now the real battle is at hand. [9]
• He listened intently to the ebb and flow of these sounds. [2]
• He listened intently to the distant rumble of the lions. [11]
• Then he listened to the dialogue which had nothing to do with «The Sunburst Trail. [11]

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Try to make use of these strategies and tips efficiently based on your learning style and you can crack these two question types.

1. Introduction to Sentence/Summary Completion Questions in IELTS Listening

In IELTS Listening Sentence/Summary Completion Questions, you will be given a list of sentences or a brief summary taken from the audio clip. Unfortunately, the vocabulary in the sentences or summary will be not the same as that in the clip. Instead, it will be shown in the form of synonyms and paraphrases as a trick to test your vocabulary range as well as listening comprehension. 

Normally, you have to fill in words within a sentence or a summary while listening to the recording to complete.

Through IELTS Listening Sentence/Summary Completion Questions, the examiners want to test your:

• listening comprehension

• ability to identify and understand keywords, synonyms and paraphrases

Despite the difficulty of these two question types in which you are required to fully understand the meaning of sentences or the summary, then listen and fill out blanks at the same time, a good strategy will help you answer those successfully.

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2. IELTS Listening Sentence/Summary Completion Questions Strategies

2.1. Read the questions and requirements carefully

The instructions in all question types in IELTS Listening, especially Sentence/Summary Completion Questions play a pivotal role in deciding whether your answers are accepted or not. The word limit will be described as ONLY ONE WORD or NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS or NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER, so make sure that your answers will not exceed this requirement. 

2.2. Read the incomplete sentences/summary and Identify keywords 

The meaning of the incomplete sentences or the summary must be completely understood when you are given a few seconds to look at questions before jumping into the listening recording. Whilst reading those sentences or the summary,  identify and underline or highlight keywords that help you focus more during the listening process.

2.3. Predict the answers

Take advantage of the given time for preparation also to identify the word type of each blank. Additionally, try to guess the answers based on your knowledge and you may find some of those are the answers you are looking for. Remember that you cannot completely stick to these predictions for the final answers since this is the Listening test and it is requisite to base on the script, not your background knowledge.

For example, in the picture below, the first gap should be a verb because it stands behind the phrase “in order to” indicating a purpose. Besides, you can immediately guess “protect” for the blank on the basis of the sentence’s meaning (the army’s responsibility is to protect the emperor). 

Moreover, the audio will not use the same words or phrases as in the incomplete sentences or summary, hence, think of the possible synonyms and paraphrases that may appear.

For instance, the statement “football is the most favorite game all around the world” can become “wherever you go on earth, you will find no other sports that can beat the popularity of football” in the audio.

2.4. Listen and fill in the blanks

Now, when running out of preparation time, you will start listening to the audio and fill in the blank. Try to focus on the keywords identified, and synonyms or paraphrases as well. 

2.5. Double-check answers

At the end of the Listening test, 10 minutes will be given for double-checking and transferring your answers to the answer sheet. The answers must be correctly written in terms of spelling, and grammatically make sense. 

3. Common problems and mistakes & Tips for Sentence/Summary Completion Questions in IELTS Listening

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Other tips for IELTS Listening Sentence/Summary Completion Questions:

• The answer to the next question will be after the previous one so follow the sequence of the questions and you will find the answers

• A stuck question can be solved after the audio since you have 10 minutes in the end to check all the answers. Therefore, don’t stay on one question for such a long time

• Based on the grammatical structure, context, etc. to guess the answers beforehand and check the answers after the recording

• Pay particular attention to the words that come before and after the gap to help you notice when the information you are waiting for is mentioned

Sentence/Summary Completion Questions can boost your overall IELTS Listening test if you have suitable strategies and some tips to avoid common mistakes.

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