How to use overhear in a sentence

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• She wanted to investigate further, based on some things that she had overheard.From the entry based on
• Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.From the entry scandalize
• He didn't hold the gun, but he got in on the robbery after he overheard some of us talking.From the entry in on
• Overhearing the insult, he stalked woundedly out of the room.From the entry woundedly
• She overheard the information by accident.From the entry by accident
• "Do you remember Calkin's story about the quarrel he overheard—and underlooked?"2016, H. F. Heard, The Great Fog: And Other Weird Tales. From the entry underlook
• Last week, I overheard one editor at the Crimson accuse another of being a lexiphane.2014 April 11, Noah B. Pisner, “Big words and their use on campus”, in Harvard Magazine, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Magazine Inc., →OCLC…. From the entry lexiphanicism
• I overheard a voice on the fire south radio channel trying to hail us.2012, Kelly R. Rasmussen, Call 911!: True Stories from My Life in Emergency Dispatch, page 70. From the entry answer up
• "What we have to do first is degafiate him," I thought I overheard.1985, David Langford, “Seventh Bit: Yes! We Have Parakeet Diapers!”, in The TransAtlantic Hearing Aid. From the entry degafiate
• Overheard in Cornwall: 'Oh, ess, diden' ee know I gived up keepin' ducks?1951, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman (page 64). From the entry ess
• He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157. From the entry retail
• “Don’t speak so loud, or you will be overheard—and I should be ruined.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “15. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry humbug
• But at a community dance he overheard an old Danishman say as I danced by, “Dot Beckie!a. 1900, Elva Richardson Shumway, editor, James & Anne Jacobson, Horticulturist + Dairymaid, & Family, published 1994, page 194. From the entry Danishman
• Overheard him and Petrus plotting to get rid of you.2021, Lucinda Roy, The Freedom Race, →ISBN. From the entry angelship
• I heard that she got it after overhearing someone at a party refer to her as a chinless wonder.2016, Boze Hadleigh, Marilyn Forever. From the entry blonden
• Basically, you meemawed anything you didn't want people to overhear, even when there was no one around to listen in.2013, Lisa Riley, Never Judge a Book by its Cover: The Autobiography, →ISBN. From the entry meemaw
• Basically, you mee-mawed anything you didn't want people to overhear, even when there was no one around to listen in.2013, Lisa Riley, Never Judge a Book by its Cover: The Autobiography, →ISBN. From the entry mee-maw
• This latest phrase had been overheard in the kitchens of the hall, and was redeployed for the first time now.2012, Jane Sanderson, Ravenscliffe. From the entry not on your nellie
• Many playwrights dread sitting among their audiences: Nothing is quite as soul-killing as overhearing people savage your work in midperformance.2009 January 28, Patrick Healy, “An Evening in Black and White From a Playwright Who Is Neither”, in New York Times. From the entry midperformance
• 'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon.2007, Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry Cathy
• Early one morning, a tiger on the prowl overheard two mithun gossiping as they grazed in a clearing.2005, “Tseube”, in First Sun Stories: Unusual Folk Tales from the North East, Katha, published 2011, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry mithun
• She had overheard her Mom and Mrs.1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket…. From the entry swell
• And you've very probably overheard snatches of the same kind of language in the school corridors and the cafeteria.1961, Alex Madison Caughran, Lee Harrison Mountain, High School Reading: Book 1, page 170. From the entry Slurvian
• You are overheard; you are followed; you are worked into the same scheme, and robbed on the same night.1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night. From the entry buck
• Some confab followed, and I overheard enough to tell me that a scouting party had come in, bringing a prisoner.1902, Francis Lynde, “In which I Taste the Quality of Mercy”, in The Master of Appleby: […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers…. From the entry confab
• The Sages once overheard three shepherds discussing what weather is characteristic of Adar, and if that weather does not occur, it is not really Adar.2024, David Golinkin, “What Is The Purpose And History Of Adar II”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 85. From the entry intercalate
• Closer to home, I overheard a conversation at breakfast from a group of first-years at the table beside me defending the bill’s position.2015, Amalie Jahn, chapter 33, in A Straw Man, Charlotte, N.C.: Bermlord, →ISBN, page 235. From the entry first-year
• “The Potheads, Preps, Socially-Awkwards, Nerds, World-of-Warcrafters, Lax-Bros, and the Footballers.” The World-of-Warcrafters sitting at the table next to us overheard him and smirked.2011, Madison Adler, The Glass Wall, Bento Box Books, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry World of Warcrafter
• The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel that he could actually write this poem.2006, Francis Raven, Inverted Curvatures: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Spuyten Duyvil, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry languagey
• Jasper couldn't have known they'd been overheard upstairs, but his little smirk coming and going invited you to guess he'd been up to something.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry pink
• I overheard a geologist say that a good pair of boots can be rasped to bits on a‘a in a couple of months.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 44. From the entry a'a
• Their troubles had begun earlier that night when Vanna, Teacher Vic’s former ghoulfriend, overheard the Eastons’ plans to deliver the videotape to the police.1995, Jerry Piasecki, Laura for Dessert, page 271. From the entry ghoulfriend
• I remember vividly the time I overheard one gay woman ask her lover (a prominent lesbian activist) if they could go to the movies.1974 February 16, Satya, “A Human Game”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 34, page 4. From the entry burst someone's bubble
• Overheard on the pitch yesterday: “I got next.” “Nah, bro.” “They’re stuck in traffic.” “It’s in the side pocket in my bag over there.” “I gotchu.”2021 November 10, Adria Marin, Celeste Umaña, “The next time you go play pickup soccer in L.A. remember these photos”, in Los Angeles…. From the entry gotchu
• The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times. From the entry expeller
• A little fat man with an American flag in the lapel of his coat overheard him and said the best legshow in New York was Minsky's on East Houston Street.1930, John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel, page 319. From the entry legshow

Meaning of overhear

1. verb To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.

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Questions about overhear in a sentence

How do you use overhear in a sentence?

Overhear is used as a verb. For example: “I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.”

What is a short sentence with overhear?

“She overheard the information by accident.”

What does overhear mean?

Overhear means to hear something that was not meant for one's ears.