Example sentences for: overheard

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

  • At 9:39, the FAA's Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center overheard a second announcement indicating that there was a bomb on board, that the plane was returning to the airport, and that they should remain seated.

  • 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.

  • (Gingrich was incommunicado the day the report was unexpectedly delivered to Congress, even as an overheard remark of Barney Frank's enraged a Republican representative, leading him to introduce a motion to make the report public.)

  • I remarked on this once at a party in London and was overheard by Noel Malcolm, who said: Do you want him to double his anti-Semitism?

  • Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.


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