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Lexicographically close words:
heapes; heapeth; heaping; heaps; heapt; hearb; hearbe; hearbes; hearbs; heard
  1. Many persons tend to develop all the symptoms they hear of, from pains and aches to mental failure.

  2. The part futile jealousy and envy play in life will not be underestimated by those who will candidly view their own feelings when they hear of the success of those who are near them.

  3. Drew could hear the other's harsh, fast breathing just as he had when they had found the injured boy at Harrisburg.

  4. They could hear it right enough, the sharp spatter of rifle and musket fire, the deeper sound of field guns.

  5. Should you have any news, I'd be obliged to hear it.

  6. Through the night hours Schofield's army had marched along the turnpike, within gunshot of the gray troops, close enough for Hood's pickets to hear the talk of the retreating men.

  7. He could hear Hatch's thick breathing and Jas's, a crack of charred wood breaking on the hearth, a slashing against the broken window .

  8. There was a second of silence through which they could both hear the faint sounds of life from the stockade.

  9. And he could hear Kirby's laugh and Boyd calling out some inarticulate warning or advice.

  10. As the next moment, 'mid a swarthy group Of dusky laborers, a familiar form Raised itself from a shaft of phorphyry, And turned itself to hear that throbbing heart.

  11. I should hear from him-- Should know the worst.

  12. We could hardly see them for the crowd, and there was a woman near me who talked so much I could hardly hear Ludwig.

  13. We hear that for fear of disturbing the Princes she has gone to the country to have her feast with her friends.

  14. And now we hear that because of this clever answer Berlin is to have a fine new charity.

  15. For some time they could hear the soldiers, and then all was silent.

  16. As for Hans, he muttered under his breath to Bettina: "Ach Himmel, but hear him.

  17. We hear much talk of what happens there, how they ramble in the woods, seek wild flowers, have supper under the trees and spend their days very happily.

  18. We hear much of a brave man called Kosciusko, but Prussia rejoices that at last we have defeated him.

  19. We hear that she wore it all the time she was in that city.

  20. Meanwhile, dark hours will pass like storm-birds over thy head--thou wilt hear the rushing of their wings, but it will not frighten thee.

  21. Mother will be in bed and we will slip in, oh, so lightly, just like a kitty, and she won't hear a sound.

  22. Did you hear him, the villain, Bettina, call our generals 'old wigs'?

  23. He has been writing here in Jena and did not even hear the cannon.

  24. Each day I hear a fresh story of their suffering.

  25. Each of the agents, on a stakeout job like the Garbitsch one, would be carrying personal communicators, and Malone could hear the voice of the agent-in-charge as he spoke to them.

  26. He could hear the tramping of a lot of feet coming across the field toward them.

  27. That's good thinking," he could hear Lou say.

  28. Malone was sure that, somewhere, he could hear birds plugging their favorite numbers, and the soft rustle of the wind through pine branches.

  29. He paused then, and, in his imagination, he could almost hear Lou's voice.

  30. And he hoped that that somebody would alert everybody else, so they could all tune in and hear his grand final explanation of everything.

  31. As he opened the door, he could almost hear Burris' sigh of relief.

  32. We had secret hopes of taking prisoner some of the "Heinies" whom we could almost hear breathing out there in No Man's Land.

  33. We could see the flash of the gun and hear that peculiar, fascinating "whine" as it passed over our heads, and finally its mocking challenge as it found its target.

  34. I have seen thousands in the hospitals and on the battlefield, many of them literally shot to pieces, and I have yet to hear the first complaint.

  35. When above the noise and rattle of the car--for a Ford always carries a rattle--you hear the stentorian command of the guard, instantly every stopping device is automatically applied.

  36. So well hidden were they that I passed within a few rods of multitudes of them, as I traveled the roads, without detecting their presence until I would either hear the discharge of their shells or see them as they were being unlimbered.

  37. It was great sport, and to hear the cheers of approval from our boys, for whom all this energy was being expended, was ample reward for our fatigue and loss of sleep.

  38. When it was over they quietly returned to their game, more thoughtful, because they had themselves chosen to hear the truth.

  39. That is, it will be when I hear from the governor.

  40. Not at all," I said, "it was pleasant to hear her talk.

  41. Do I hear of anything, but soldiers from morning till night?

  42. She will have it we are not even engaged till I hear from the governor; and I can't get a letter till Tuesday, at soonest.

  43. I say, Charteris, did you ever hear the governor speak of Doctor Urquhart, of ours?

  44. At last, I hear Penelope dismiss her maiden, bolt the door, and settle for the night.

  45. I like to hear his talking, so wise, yet so simple; a freshness almost boyish seems to linger in his nature still, and he has the thoroughly boyish peculiarity of taking pleasure in little things.

  46. The value of the work performed by this Committee was much qualified by the disinclination of its members to hear any evidence which did not bear directly upon Thoroughbreds and the production of saddle horses.

  47. But am I to hear nothing more about this smack, not even her name?

  48. Even Dick Martin was an observer at that operation, for, having been roused by the bustle around him, he raised himself on an elbow, and looking down from his berth, could both hear and see.

  49. Fox; "didn't you hear what they said of 'im at Gorleston?

  50. This was obviously the case, for by that time the boat of the Cormorant had come so near to the vessel that they could not only perceive the actions of those on board, but could hear their voices.

  51. They could hear her faintly, yet distinctly, through the cracked and patched windows, and listened with all their ears.

  52. He longed to hear more, but Bob had been taught somehow that eavesdropping is a mean and dishonourable thing.

  53. The salute was repeated, scarcely above a whisper, but clear enough for Irving to hear it distinctly.

  54. I'll report to the colonel and probably in a day or two Tourtelle will hear from us again.

  55. He was sure there was no call even for a reprimand, whereas the officer had spoken in tones quite loud enough for the enemy to hear fifty, or possibly a hundred, yards away.

  56. Heave a big yawn or clear your throat and I'll know you hear me and get what I'm saying.

  57. Irving exclaimed, though the noise of the motor and the propeller and the rush of air about him made it impossible for him to hear himself.

  58. They were cheering like mad--Irving knew it, though he could not hear a voice.

  59. He remembers as a lad of thirteen going down to the village one evening to hear a man, McLaurie, talk up the academy before there was one in Roxbury.

  60. He had overheard me telling sister Abigail about the breakfast, and he declared: "I had rather go to hear old Elder Jim Mead preach two hours, if he was living, than attend all the fancy parties in the world.

  61. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering the thoughts we despise; we see eyes--ah!

  62. This makes me in much haste, and therefore without another word I must say that I shall always be glad to hear from you, and that I am always truly your friend.

  63. I did not hear him speak, but watched him going about with a silk hat, much too large, pushed back on his head; his sharp eyes peering into everything, curious about everything.

  64. Hear what he says after having ploughed in his new vineyard for the first time: "How I soaked up the sunshine to-day!

  65. I hear the kernels rattle, a shower of them falling in the basket, with now and then one flying out in the room.

  66. A noted English historian (Freeman) while visiting Vassar College went in to hear the rhetoric class.

  67. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.

  68. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil killed them.

  69. Was all silent in the forest as you passed through, or did you hear a noise?

  70. But he had a rival and might be in danger, and again I listened; when what was my dismay and horror to hear the father and brother express their fears that he had attacked his insolent rival, and been injured in the contest.

  71. Hear the careless laugh of the laborers, as they mingle with their work congratulations on the morrow’s festival!

  72. Press back that bitter sob into thy sorrowful heart, lest the dying child hear it!

  73. I seem to float again upon the Rhine, and again to hear the song of the vine-dressers, suspended from the craggy and terraced slopes where the white wines of princes are produced.

  74. I still seemed to hear Angelica’s cry for help, and the entreaties of her mother.

  75. It is only my new Viennese chariot and Andalusian ponies,” said the doctor, humbly, but so loud, that every one could hear him.

  76. She never told him that he was dying; but sometimes they spoke together of death, and often—for he liked to hear her—she would sing sweet hymns to him, that told of the heaven he was so soon going to.

  77. I seemed to hear in the distance Angelica’s cry for help, and the shrill tones of her mother entreating my aid.

  78. I have deserved every thing—every thing you can say; but oh, from you it is bitter to hear it!

  79. As to those who understand the language of birds, and who rather consult the livers of animals other than their own, I had rather hear them than attend to them.

  80. An inside sash was partly open, so that he could both see and hear through the blinds and remain unperceived.

  81. From all I hear it's going to be a grand affair.

  82. I hear so much about my fortune--my wealth, that I detest the very mention of it.

  83. He won't hear of any physician's being spoken to about him.

  84. I don't know if I shall be able to hear the address," said Pierre, "but in any case I will go there to meet you.

  85. The frightful Panama adventure was scarcely over; he had followed the progress of that tragedy with the anguish of a man who every night expects to hear the tocsin sound the last hour of olden, agonising society.

  86. I'm always pleased to see him and hear him and go out with him.

  87. Only the last time I spoke to him, he swore to me--you hear me?

  88. He was sleeping there in his father's old bed, and now you hear him, he's woke up.

  89. I want to hear Legras sing 'La Chemise,' that song which all Paris is running to hear him sing.

  90. Growing hesitation and repugnance stirred him as he fancied he could again hear her saying that perhaps there might be some better course, that would require search and reflection.

  91. Thomas, "at the moment of the consecration you will hear something much louder than that.

  92. On Pierre's arrival the brothers were so absorbed in their work that they did not even hear the door open.

  93. He waved his hand towards Paris, over which a sun of victory was setting, and then again spoke: "Do you hear the rumble?

  94. The worst is, that Paris has to hear it whether it will or no, and even as far away as the Pantheon, so I'm told.

  95. One could hear Rosemonde laughing as she went off below, while the General began to tell Madame Fonsegue another story as they descended the stairs together.

  96. Was it not yonder at the corner of that street, at the end of that Boulevard, that he would find the expected abyss into which that rotten world, whose old society he could hear rending at each step, must soon assuredly topple?

  97. I'll think you have reached your second childhood if you ever let me hear of anything like it again," declared his sister.

  98. I'd give a whole lot to be there to hear what transpires," agreed Hal.

  99. The boys could hear him stalk heavily across the room.

  100. You will hear of me again, sir," he thundered.

  101. Neither Mrs. Paine nor Mrs. Crawford would hear of such a thing.

  102. But the two fugitives could hear his voice raised in another roar, as he thundered out a call for his men to give chase.

  103. Meanwhile they could hear the whine of the Italian bullets above their head, some so close that Chester feared for a moment the Italian cavalrymen had misunderstood their orders.

  104. You are simply talking to hear yourself talk.

  105. All they could hear was the terrible din and roar.

  106. Let one of these uniformed gentleman on this side of the border hear you say that and you won't ever get any place except under the sod.

  107. I am afraid the general would not hear of it," replied the colonel, with a slight smile.

  108. I wish we could hear from him and learn what he has discovered in the papers he holds.

  109. I believe I hear someone on the porch," whispered Linda, drawing in her head.

  110. Don't you hear every bit of town news from Miss Ri?

  111. The little roly-poly boy stared quite as fixedly, but at the first question addressed, the three fled, though Miss Ri and Linda could hear them shrilly reporting their experiences to someone in the next room.

  112. Because," Linda went on, bending a little nearer that he could hear her whisper, "I already love you so much.

  113. I've a lot of papers somewhere; I'll get them out, Maria, and you shall hear from me.

  114. She went to her room, tip-toeing gently that Miss Ri might not hear her in the adjoining one.

  115. She is as bad as Becky, and did you hear Lauretta?

  116. You are just in time to hear Verlinda sing," responded Miss Ri with ready tact and in order to cover her own confusion.

  117. Berkley wondered if she could hear the thumping of his heart.

  118. What pure joy to hear her speak like that.

  119. It would be hard not to spend the day as usual in the old home, and harder still not to hear the voice of him who had always made Christmas a happy day for her.

  120. I shall be glad to hear from you as occasion permits, and subscribe myself "Your aff.

  121. By the way, Linda, did you ever hear the way old Aaron Hopkins interprets that?

  122. This thing is so simple and so clear in my own mind that I can not see how any one can think differently; but if anybody does, I would like to hear from them.

  123. I would like to hear from him” would be right.

  124. I hear it through the grass Dragging the links of my shortening chain Southwards, alas!

  125. Watching, I hear No sound from the strangers, the place is dark, and fear Opens my eyes till the roots of my vision seems torn.

  126. But Lord Townshend is such a rattling good soldier that Colonel Money is quite sure he will want to hear all about the war.

  127. Upon the further side of the lawn, so that I could hear it but not see it, a fountain was playing into a basin.

  128. But when Peter Wanderwide said that word "death," the howling and the boo-hooing of the company assembled about his bed grew so loud that he could hardly hear himself think.

  129. When King Caedwalla came to Rome the Pope received him and said: "I hear that you would be instructed in the Faith.

  130. It is not the receiver of the benefit; it will not hear that large volume of recognition and of salute.

  131. Either to be what I have been, a wanderer with all the bitterness of it, or to stay at home and hear in one's garden the voice of God.

  132. They trotted off with the pieces, and when they crossed the little ditch at the edge of the field I waited for the heavy clank-clank and the jog that ought to go with that well-known episode; but I did not hear it, and I saw no shock.

  133. The fair probably offered better and more various amusements every year, for Pepys records five visits in 1668, when we first hear of the celebrated rope-dancer, Jacob Hall.

  134. It is remarkable, and worth your observation, to behold and hear the strange sights and confused sounds in the fair.

  135. We next hear of Banks and his horse at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, where Bishop Morton saw them, and heard from the former the story of his narrow escape at Orleans.

  136. I did not hear those shots but only the newspaper reports which followed them almost as loudly in the soul of Paris.

  137. Above the sizzling of sausages and the clatter of plates one could hear the moaning of the wounded and the incessant monologue of the fever-stricken.

  138. A simple man, he used to open his heart to his rough comrades, and often in the trenches, under shell-fire, he would recite the Psalms in a clear voice so that they could hear him.

  139. In the scullery where I sat by the stoves which were in my charge, I could only hear one voice speaking.

  140. I went back to Paris for a day when General French arrived, and even now in remembrance I hear those shouts of "Vive l'Angleterre!

  141. Upon entering Soupir the French troops found in cellars where they had concealed themselves thirty people who had gone raving mad and who cried and pleaded to remain so that they could still hear the shells and gibber at death.

  142. We could hear them burst and scatter, and could see them burrow.

  143. Short, sharp stabs revealed a Belgian battery, and very clearly we could hear the roll of field guns, followed by enormous concussions of heavy artillery.

  144. Once he groaned, and I was glad to hear the sound and to know that he was still alive.

  145. I awakened out of a drowsy sleep to hear the tramp of innumerable feet.

  146. Did any of, those German editors hear afar off the thunderstrokes of the Krupp guns which even then were being tested for the war with France and England?

  147. It was enormously good to hear them talking to each other in just the same civil, disinterested, casual way which belongs to the conversational range of St. James's Street clubs.

  148. If we're hard pressed we shall hear something about St. Quentin, too.

  149. To this soldier it is an intolerable thought that he should hear the hymn of victory sung at a "prize distribution," or in a music-hall scented with the perfume of women.

  150. Mother," said Dick, "can you see and hear me?

  151. But Waller didn't hear him; so March Marston effected the desired object by stuffing the corner of a blanket into his mouth and smothering his face in its folds.

  152. I like to hear about them; they were so kind to you, and that Dick, from your account, seems to be such a fine fellow: tell me all about them over again.

  153. Sich doins' as this I never did see nor hear of since I left the frontier.

  154. He couldn't bear to hear of it, and would not believe it though Waller himself said it.

  155. Glad to hear you're such a wise fellow," said McLeod patronisingly.

  156. In his intercourse with some of the river Indians he heard or professed to hear of a tribe of women warriors whom it was easy, in recognition of the classic story, to name the Amazons.


  157. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolutely; alright; apprehend; arbitrate; ascertain; assuredly; attend; beautiful; bug; catch; certainly; determine; discover; distinguish; eavesdrop; encore; exactly; excellent; experience; feel; fine; gather; get; good; great; hark; hear; hearken; heed; hurrah; indeed; intercept; judge; know; listen; naturally; officiate; oui; perceive; positively; precisely; quite; rather; really; receive; referee; respond; right; see; sense; smell; sure; surely; swell; tap; taste; touch; truly; try; umpire; unearth; yes; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hear about; hear from; hear from you again; hear him; hear much; hear thee; hear what you have; hear you; heard him; heard himself; heard mass; heard some; heard something; heard them; heard this; heart full; heart leaped; heart like; heart was; heart would; hearted fellow; hearted gentlemen; heartily sorry; heartily wish; hearty shake; hearty welcome