give ear
Example Sentences
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Nervously he took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Kennedy, outside on the porch hammock would give ear and, with him, Rose Fitzgerald.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tokyo, masses assembled to give ear to anti-American ardor.
From Time Magazine Archive
As usual, hurrying U. S. citizens paused to give ear to Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Women who have lost their hold on life readily give ear to visionaries: having exhausted the joys of this world, they wish to test those of another.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.
