Thesaurus / be all ears
other words for be all ears
MOST RELEVANT
- consider
- examine
- explore
- inspect
- interrogate
- probe
- question
- review
- scrutinize
- search
- study
- bug
- case
- delve
- dig
- eyeball
- frisk
- inquire
- muckrake
- poke
- prospect
- pry
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- scout
- sift
- spy
- tap
- wiretap
- check out
- check over
- check up
- feel out
- give the once over
- go into
- inquisite
- listen in
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- nose around
- put to the test
- run down
- stake out
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
He had discovered that the all-glorious boast of Spain was not exempt from the infirmities of common men.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
Naturally the conversation fell on the all-absorbing topic of the day and the object of his mission.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
Vague murmurs of doubt and surprise reached the ears of two of the British magistrates.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
The temptation to pour his financial troubles into the sympathetic ears of these two dear women he resisted.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Let them that sail on the sea, tell the dangers thereof: and when we hear with our ears, we shall admire.
WORDS RELATED TO BE ALL EARS
- be all ears
- bug
- case
- check out
- check over
- check up
- consider
- delve
- dig
- examine
- explore
- eyeball
- feel out
- frisk
- give the once over
- go into
- inquire
- inquisite
- inspect
- interrogate
- listen in
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- muckrake
- nose around
- poke
- probe
- prospect
- pry
- put to the test
- question
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- review
- run down
- scout
- scrutinize
- search
- sift
- spy
- stake out
- study
- tap
- wiretap
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.