Examples of listenable in a Sentence
He finds some of his son's music very listenable.
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There may not be a better—and certainly no more listenable—approach to dissecting race in America, the rise of youth culture, the triumph and tribulation of consumerism.
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
How does anyone make this listenable?
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 May 2022
Since signing with Travis Scott’s Cactus Jack imprint in 2018, he’s released two remarkably listenable LPs that reveal exactly nothing about their creator, but go down easy, like one more drug after a handful of them.
—Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
Taylor Swift has done it again – she’s dropped an epically listenable album with no skips and given everyone on planet Earth something not too depressing to dissect for a full weekend.
—oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
But then came another misstep in the lo-fi art-punk scuzz of Mosquito in 2013; ambitious, foreboding arrangements, but the YYYs’ least listenable project to date (by quite a bit).
—Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
While his voice might have more warble to it, his ability to turn the bucolic into something infinitely listenable is still formidable.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
This might be the most listenable thing on this list.
—SPIN, 28 Apr. 2022
The best new books of 2022 have begun to arrive in the form of dazzling hardcovers and highly-listenable audiobooks.
—Glamour, 17 Feb. 2022
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
How does anyone make this listenable?
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 May 2022
Since signing with Travis Scott’s Cactus Jack imprint in 2018, he’s released two remarkably listenable LPs that reveal exactly nothing about their creator, but go down easy, like one more drug after a handful of them.
—Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023
Taylor Swift has done it again – she’s dropped an epically listenable album with no skips and given everyone on planet Earth something not too depressing to dissect for a full weekend.
—oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2022
But then came another misstep in the lo-fi art-punk scuzz of Mosquito in 2013; ambitious, foreboding arrangements, but the YYYs’ least listenable project to date (by quite a bit).
—Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
While his voice might have more warble to it, his ability to turn the bucolic into something infinitely listenable is still formidable.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
This might be the most listenable thing on this list.
—SPIN, 28 Apr. 2022
The best new books of 2022 have begun to arrive in the form of dazzling hardcovers and highly-listenable audiobooks.
—Glamour, 17 Feb. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1942, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near listenable
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“Listenable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/listenable. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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