headphones

Example Sentences

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In the Resilience Department, visitors can don headphones to listen to sounds recorded by Canada-based artist Margüi during an epileptic seizure for a piece titled “Unbreakable.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Sources told the BBC that the accused simply stood pointing his mobile at the training session, while wearing in-ear headphones.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

“Some of them had their headphones in, some of them were playing up to the camera. One of them went to sleep briefly.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

But now, without his headphones, he enjoyed listening to birds sing as he took walks around Washington.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

In the back, there are two boys, both wearing headphones, who look up at me and away again.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish