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Example sentences for: hears

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

Alas, one rarely hears the echt Litvisch accent these days.
a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)
And one hears exactly the same argument now.
but I doubt it: That's not the way the ear hears music, and Hammerstein was too sensitive a lyricist to be so numbingly literal.
This question is on every person's mind when he or she hears a loud bang in the middle of the night or a knock on the door at three in the morning."