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Example sentences for "after listening"

  • There seems to be less firing now," observed Vine, after listening in silence a few minutes.

  • And suddenly the whole body of the savages, contrary to their usual custom, quitted the woods, and came rushing into the camp of their allies with manifestations of the greatest surprise and dismay.

  • And she arose to examine the apartment, and see what precautions could be taken to render it more safe against the intrusion of enemies, whether they should come in the shape of men or wild beasts.

  • After listening to her story he wrote a few lines on a card, enclosing it in an envelope and directing her to take it to the Secretary of War.

  • After listening to him a few minutes, when he had got well warmed with his subject, nobody would mind whether he was graceful or not.

  • I will do all that I can," he said, after listening to our story.

  • Well, I don't know but the man is right," the old man said, after listening a few minutes in silence.

  • After listening to her rejoinder, Hsiao Hung stood still; and plunging in abstraction, she did not go and fetch the pencil.

  • After listening to these effusions, Pao-yü unconsciously threw himself down in a wandering frame of mind.

  • After listening to her, Pao-yü nodded his head and smiled.

  • After listening to these arguments Flamininus replied that “He would not personally take any part in such a measure, but he would not hinder those who wished to do so.

  • Tai-yü, after listening to what her father had to say, parted from him in a flood of tears and followed her nurse and several old matrons from the Jung mansion on board her boat, and set out on her journey.

  • Mr. Chou Jui's wife, after listening to these words, at once became to a great extent aware of the object of her visit.

  • Captain Eaton and his party finding it impossible to retake their prisoner, after listening to the sermon of Mr. Ward, and partaking of some bodily refreshment, took their leave of the settlers of Pentucket, and departed for Boston.

  • A few yards from the road I lay down at the foot of a large beech-tree, and resting my head on my bag, after listening for a few minutes to the ring of the hammers in the road, I must have fallen asleep.

  • They have gone,' he added, after listening for a few minutes.

  • The caliph, after listening to me with the greatest attention, received me very graciously.

  • After listening to Lucy Stone plead for renewed work for woman suffrage and for petitions for a Sixteenth Amendment, she spontaneously rose to her feet and asked permission to speak.

  • As the grand jury, after listening to his story for a while, dismissed him in disgust, be presented himself before their successors at a subsequent term and complained of them.

  • That is the only way any person ever reached an honorable position," remarked Benjamin, after listening to the interesting story of success.

  • Your suggestion to organize a company to extinguish fires is a capital one," remarked Potts, after listening to Franklin's paper.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "after listening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bowing; after careful; after crossing; after debate; after drying; after five; after four; after her; after other; after pausing; after period; after preaching; after several; after sunset; after taking; after that; after the same manner; after touching; after what; after which; afterward found; afterward learned; afterwards learnt; good glass; religious beliefs; water shortages