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How to use hearer in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Hearer means one who hears. Example: “I leave my hearers to judge.”

More sentences with hearer

  • I leave my hearers to judge.From the entry leave
  • This is what happens when speakers with more discursive power uptalk to hearers with less discursive power.2015, Rachel McKinnon, The Norms of Assertion: Truth, Lies, and Warrant (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy), Basingstoke, Hampshire; New…. From the entry uptalk
  • An analyst must discuss what makes a narrative “good” – satisfying to its creators and hearers.2009, Haruko Momma, Michael Matto, A Companion to the History of the English Language, page 609. From the entry antimentalism
  • He shocked his hearers by urging them not to fast during Ramadan, which begins Feb. 29.1960 February 22, “Breaking the Fast”, in Time. From the entry clinching
  • There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.1908, Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads, page 169. From the entry comprehender
  • When it was a village or a country town that he visited, all the countryside sent its brakeloads of eager hearers.1906, Denis Crane, James Flanagan: The Story of a Remarkable Career, page 176. From the entry brakeload
  • Defaultism ¶ The defaultist view is that some conversational implicatures are default inferences—presumptive meanings—that the hearer makes unless given reason not to by the speaker.2019, Shalom Lappin, Chris Fox, The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, page 185. From the entry defaultism
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are a double act engaged to spy on Hamlet, with the result that he has "at each ear a hearer."2008, “Introduction”, in Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, editors, Hamlet, Modern Library Edition, page vii. From the entry double act
  • If S„ is a linkful sentence, the hearer is instructed to move to another address b before proceeding to enter the information carried by S„.2003, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Semantics: Discourse and dynamics, page 373. From the entry linkful
  • Madame Carreno’s fleet fingered manipulation of the chords and rapid passages did much to make the hearer forget the theatricity of the work.1910 January 16, “Teresa Carreno, Called Queen of Pianists, Will Play Here”, in The Oregon Sunday Journal, volume VI, number 42, Portland…. From the entry theatricity
  • Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it.1984, Aloysius Martinich, Communication and Reference, page 38. From the entry flat out
  • Ordinary readers would have passed it by unnoticed, but his keen eye saw the hidden gem, and he quickly seized it, and held it up to his delighted hearers.1902, John Taylor, Reminiscences of Isaac Marsden of Doncaster, C. H. Kelly, page 107. From the entry hidden gem
  • As in Haggadic method of interpretation, Jesus used these aesthetic elements such as characters, narrative forms and familiar scenes in order to capture and maintain the attention of his hearers.2011, John Joshva Raja, Searching God in the Media Market. From the entry haggadic
  • Parsons takes the gift and sings Melissa a responsive song, wherein her “unmov’d” song turns through its “unmov’d” hearer to a kind of metasong about the freedom that art offers.1995, Elaine Scarry, Fins-de-siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 118. From the entry metasong
  • He had appealed to them in English, and a Chinese Inspector of Schools had addressed them in Kuo-Yü language as remote as the tongue of Caedmon to the impassive hearers.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 499. From the entry Kuo-Yü

Meaning of hearer

  1. noun One who hears.
  2. noun A person who regularly attends sermons; a devout listener.

Full definition of hearer

Questions about hearer in a sentence

How do you use hearer in a sentence?
Hearer is used as a noun. For example: “I leave my hearers to judge.”
What is a short sentence with hearer?
“I leave my hearers to judge.”
What does hearer mean?
Hearer means one who hears.

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