Example sentences for: earshot

How can you use “earshot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When will someone within earshot confuse swear by and swear at ?

  • Observers worried that 1) remaining Serbs will now flee Kosovo; 2) the murders, which happened within earshot of NATO troops, demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the peacekeeping mission; and 3) they demonstrate the ineffectiveness of NATO's entire campaign, since ethnic Albanians and Serbs are still killing each other.

  • Several weeks later, I was complaining about having to buy a new suit, and my aunt happened to be within earshot.

  • The OED does not include swivel hips but many school teachers were once called, out of earshot, “Miss Swiviel Hips” and the thought expressed, “I'd like to have that swing on my porch.”

  • None are as effective as good communication and (maybe even more important) keeping the family computer in a central location so that all surfing is done within earshot.


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