How to Use listenable in a Sentence

listenable

adjective
  • He finds some of his son's music very listenable.
  • All Arroyo has to do to be instantly listenable is be Arroyo.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 May 2021
  • The best new books of 2022 have begun to arrive in the form of dazzling hardcovers and highly-listenable audiobooks.
    Glamour, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But look at what this disaster is: gorgeous, soulful, ever-listenable music that wins new fans anytime anyone with a heart and good taste listens to it.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 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
  • But these guys were masters at producing highly listenable pop.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The sessions became a tune, and then an album, of scraggly, lackadaisical, and compulsively listenable rock.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • As a piece of music, Bionic is always listenable, if underwhelming.
    Richard S. He, Billboard, 4 May 2018
  • Through it all, Sullivan’s flexible voice rises and falls, smooth and endlessly listenable.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 May 2021
  • The stylized comic-book presentation and highly listenable music tracks complete the package.
    Chris Kohler Susan Arendt, WIRED, 25 June 2007
  • 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
  • Sims, like Hipp, was a straight-ahead player: not experimental, but rather approachable, swinging, compellingly listenable, which endeared them to listeners and fellow musicians alike.
    Longreads, 4 Aug. 2017
  • 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

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