Example sentences for: overheard

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

  • 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.

  • Overheard at Sotheby's Tuesday: "My intention is to do whatever he indicates to me he wants done with them.

  • 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.

  • If he hasn't overheard anything, he'll simply tag along with one of us all day until lunch or dinner or whatever.

  • At age 6, my daughter Margaret was overheard pointing out her favorite constellation to a friend --“O'Brien's Belt.”


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