Wireless communications systems and methods related to performing spatial-specific listen-before-talk (LBT) with discovery signal transmissions for spectrum sharing are provided. A wireless communication device senses a channel in a spatial domain based on a plurality of expected beam transmission directions. The sensing includes sweeping through multiple directional reception beams and listening to the channel in a direction of each of the multiple directional reception beams. After the sensing, the wireless communication device transmits a channel reservation signal using an omnidirectional transmission beam and also transmits a plurality of discovery signals in one or more of the plurality of expected beam transmission directions during a discovery period to facilitate synchronization in the channel based on the sensing.