Example sentences for: overheard

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

  • Never designed for public exhibition, these experimental sketches and gifts for intimate friends have a distinctive power, like secrets revealed, or conversations overheard.

  • It concerned what you refer to as “family words” or “Penn Stations”--childhood confusions of overheard phrases.

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

  • It's never too late to mend , overheard the other day--is that a combination of It's never too late to learn and First ended, soonest mended?

  • (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.)


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