Example sentences for: overheard

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

  • Words that, barely a quarter of a century ago,would have resulted in instant arrest for insulting behaviour can now be overheard any time in Knightsbridge, Oxford Street, and any school playground in the country.

  • "Have you read the Brooklyn Museum article in the Times ?" is a question Culturebox overheard twice at the press preview of "Rock Style," an exhibition of rock 'n' roll outfits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

  • Dear is very, very common in use and overheard daily in many street, supermarket, or shopping center conversations.

  • The flight had taken off just as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a "suspicious transmission" overheard from another plane (which turned out to have been Flight 11) just after takeoff.

  • She overheard equivocal efforts to "call it something," so that " 'I like the concept' usually meant ugly"; and that when "Miyake had baggy prison garb, the word on that was 'intellectual' "; or that "if it looks like an old pinup of Rita Hayworth in a nightie, it's a return to femininity."


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