Example Sentences

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This hearts & flowers campaign does not always fall on unlistening ears.

From Time Magazine Archive

The emerald," she observed, to the unlistening Kirby, "is clear, and even one may say translucent.

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

We paused to listen to his clear, silvery strain poured out without stint upon that unlistening solitude.

From Locusts and Wild Honey by Burroughs, John

Several of the speeches throughout the following evening were of a high order; but still there was no response—it was speaking from a rock to the noisy, unlistening, and irresponsive sea.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.

Her stiff, unhappy, unlistening silence broke up my disquisition.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)