Example sentences for: hears

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

  • Beneath Dexter's stentorian tones and rhythmic tide one hears only managementese.

  • One hears it endlessly from "experts" on TV talk shows: "These people have been killing each other for hundreds of years, and there's nothing we can do about it."

  • If you give up selective disclosure, and create a truly free flow of information between companies and all of their investors, then the possibility of making easy profits (either by getting in before everyone hears the good news, or getting out before everyone hears the bad) disappears.

  • One often hears the term splitting the baby used to describe the actions of a judge or arbitrator who has reconciled opposing positions by what is better described as splitting the difference . The reference, of course, is to King Soloman's decision when faced by two women claiming to the mother of the same child.

  • If one hears the old Sussex dialect at all now it is usually found in the rural hinterland of the county between Battle (of 1066 fame) and Health-field, or that fine open stretch of country twixt Chichester and Midhurst.


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