Example sentences for: heard

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

  • Oh, and in case you hadn't heard, the subhead of that NYT piece on the new welfare programs breaks the news that they're marked by an "emphasis on work."

  • But the same paper reported a contradictory sentiment from one passenger, a former New York policeman: "I heard rescue teams talking on walkie-talkies directing people to come to help.

  • The other day I heard someone described as deaf as a bat , and now, like a man waiting for the other shoe to drop in the room above his, I listen for blind as a post .

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Five minutes later, in another conversation, Johnson can be heard giving Jenkins instructions on how he wants Hubert Humphrey to work the floor of the convention.


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