headphones

Example Sentences

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Ditching your headphones to hear the birds sing.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

"Decide, decide, decide, decide / Do I? Do I? Do I? Do I?" he screams, his voice spinning around your headphones like intrusive thoughts.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Apple’s biggest new product lines, the Apple Watch and AirPods headphones, were seen as companions to the iPhone rather than stand-alone devices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

He listens to Bach on headphones and broods.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

They’d all been prodded and tested, examined inside and out, and given fiendishly difficult tasks such as solving math problems while wearing headphones through which a friendly voice whispered incorrect answers.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin