Listening
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- It sang loud enough that the entire world heard it, and everyone in the world spent the rest of their lives alternately taking care of necessities and listening to the song.
Source: Esoteric Happy Ending -
Grimsley in The Chalk Closet sends failing/misbehaving students into a room where they'll spend the rest of eternity listening to the screech of chalk on a board, even after they've died.
Source: Literature / Goosebumps - His absolute favorite is "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen, which he starts listening to ad infinitum and obsesses about to the point that the rest of the Griffin family becomes sick of the song.
Source: "Weird Al" Effect
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Rest and Listening. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/listening/rest
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