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Example sentences for: hearer

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

"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."
The chief problem with these and other definitions is that some are based on semantics (the intent of the speaker and the understanding of the hearer), others on usage, and others on referents.
A similar statement in Malaysia could be This morning I hantar my baby tu dekat babysitter tu lah , in which the first and second Malay elements mean took and to the, and the particle lah shows that speaker and hearer are socially close.
For example, the sentence Pass to the left of the tower is ambiguous because left can mean either the speaker's left or the hearer's left; but further confusion is also possible, because left can sound very much like west .
Yet despite the hearer's conventional groan and the perpetrator's equally conventional apology, everyone knows that verbal play gives a great deal of pleasure, justifying the great deal of ingenuity that goes into producing it.