HEARING in a Sentence

Learn HEARING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
247 example sentences for HEARING, such as:
1. He was born with a hearing defect.
2. Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
3. She has remarkable hearing for a lady of her age.
4. His mind still seemed clear and his hearing was excellent.
5. She stood shaking, listening to his words, hardly hearing them.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HEARING
hearing
 a.  able to perceive sound
 n.  an opportunity to state your case and be heard
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Why, you--you must be the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about--the blockade runner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Scarlett felt pleased at hearing of their exploits, pleased in a proprietary manner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Rhett, hearing of this from Melanie, brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a lace veil and presented them to her as a wedding gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  But still, she was jarred at hearing him attack the very traditions that irked her most.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  She had lived too long among people who dissembled politely not to feel disturbed at hearing her own thoughts put into words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  A pagan hearing the lapping of the waters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Young Carey looked confused and pleased at hearing such statements from settled matrons and spinsters like Mrs. Meade and Melanie and Aunt Pitty and Fanny, and tried to hope that Scarlett really meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  What Melanie said was no more than Scarlett had been thinking but hearing it put into words infuriated her, shamed her as if her secret cowardice was written plainly in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  She stood shaking, listening to his words, hardly hearing them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Gerald stared at her for a moment as if not hearing her and she repeated her question.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  "That's the first time I ever heard of a Yankee doing a decent thing," said Grandma, as if she regretted hearing anything good about the invaders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Your mother is dead, and it's just like I was hearing it again for the first time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  At hearing such serious words about hogs from these ex-dandies who had never given life a more serious thought than which cravat was most fashionable, Scarlett laughed and this time her laugh was bitter too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Naturally, Pork and Dilcey and Mammy gave vent to loud guffaws at hearing the detractor of their beloved Tara set at naught.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  If an administrator has no access to information, it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.
2  She has remarkable hearing for a lady of her age.
3  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
4  Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
5  She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
6  Ted might benefit from hearing his own voice recorded and played back.
7  He was born with a hearing defect.
8  His mind still seemed clear and his hearing was excellent.
9  One of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is hearing imaginary voices.
10  My best wishes for your success in the examination and look forward to hearing in due course that you have passed.
11  The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
12  Dad loved to play the mandolin for his family he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play.
13  A disciplinary hearing will examine charges of serious professional misconduct against three surgeons.
14  I'll never forget hearing this piece of music for the first time.
15  From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.