How to Use listenable in a Sentence

listenable

adjective

• He finds some of his son's music very listenable.
• Music was listenable again, even the really sad songs, though a few still got me.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• But these guys were masters at producing highly listenable pop.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• And perhaps no song of this length has ever been so compulsively listenable.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
• All Arroyo has to do to be instantly listenable is be Arroyo.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 May 2021
• All have near-endless back catalogues; all are endlessly listenable.
  — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
• Developers tweak the weights to generate more listenable and predictable outputs from the same inputs.
  — Adam Clair, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024
• As a piece of music, Bionic is always listenable, if underwhelming.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 4 May 2018
• The sessions became a tune, and then an album, of scraggly, lackadaisical, and compulsively listenable rock.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Through it all, Sullivan’s flexible voice rises and falls, smooth and endlessly listenable.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 May 2021
• Learning instruments and writing songs came very naturally to me, but figuring out how to record and turn those skills into a listenable record eluded me for a long time.
  — Nick Williams, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2020
• The best new books of 2022 have begun to arrive in the form of dazzling hardcovers and highly-listenable audiobooks.
  — Glamour, 17 Feb. 2022
• As such, Carbon Nation produced lots of music — mostly hip-hop, some of it surprisingly listenable.
  — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• Yet, somehow, it’s been streamlined into something broadly accessible, a compulsively listenable tour de force that’s one of the best pop records of 2018 so far.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Headphones offer a sizeable upgrade over their compact counterparts, which often come bundled with smartphones and music players and offer miserable, if at least listenable, sound quality.
  — Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 18 July 2017
• Employee-only podcasts are password-protected and usually uploaded and listenable from internal intranet sites only.
  — Molly Beck, Quartz at Work, 15 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Patti Smith, Dickerson's first inspiration, let Smoke open for her in Atlanta, which provides the film with a satisfying climax, yet the talking/singing/playing/goofing-off heads that precede this apotheosis are just as watchable (and listenable).
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 4 June 2018
• Whereas the World Cup has long given way to the phenomenon of the English World Cup hype anthem (of these, New Order’s 1990 banger World in Motion is arguably the most listenable outside the context of the actual event), the tradition seems to have sputtered out.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026