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Example sentences for "she heard"

  • One evening, while she was preparing her little table, she heard a rustling sound at the door.

  • It seemed to her that the doors were about to open, that this man who had loved her so much would appear before her, and that she would hear his voice as she heard it for the last time in his grim prison-cell.

  • What strange and terrible events had taken place since that August Sabbath, when, on leaving the church with her father, she heard of the arrival of the Duc de Sairmeuse.

  • She only saw a blurred mist; she heard no sound of waters, though it filled the ears of those around.

  • She took her basin up, and was eating her supper when she heard a cry of her baby upstairs, and ran away to attend to it.

  • As she was scraping up the ashes, she heard, intermixed with the noise she was making, the sound of some one rapping gently at the window.

  • But, even as she lay, she heard a tinkling.

  • One day as she hung thus, glaring into the water, she heard a deep sigh.

  • She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not followed her.

  • She heard a soft little rushing flight through the air--and it was the bird with the red breast flying to them, and he actually alighted on the big clod of earth quite near to the gardener's foot.

  • How angry Miss French would be if she heard you.

  • Dorothy's face became again red as she heard this, and the angry words were very nearly spoken.

  • A look of great distress came upon Nora's face as she heard this.

  • Emily, who was standing at the bed-head, shuddered as she heard this, but made no reply.

  • And as Laura alighted, she heard Page's voice calling from the front hall that the others had umbrellas, that the maid was not to wait.

  • She heard it in the distant clicking of telegraph keys, in the echo of hurried whispered conversations held in dark corners, in the noise of rapid footsteps, in the trilling of telephone bells.

  • She heard a movement of the sleeper in his bed below the open window opposite.

  • She heard as in a dream the sound of the mailman's arrival, and presently, of the saddling of horses in the yard, and then the CLOP-CLOP of their feet as they were ridden past her end of the house to the Gully crossing.

  • She heard him go into his office, and presently the door of it slammed behind him.

  • Again she heard him moving about in his dressing-room, and, after a little while, she heard him go out, passing along the back veranda.

  • She heard him go straight in to take his bath, and hastened to have the dining room table spread.

  • I could not believe it coldness; she was all life, all agitation, if she heard only a few notes of music.

  • As she heard it, a ghastly paleness chased the flush of anger from her cheeks.

  • Marguerite as she heard, felt that her very life was slipping away, as if when that voice drew nearer, when that singer became entrapped .

  • She heard Brogard's shuffling footsteps, as he came out of the inner room, muttering his usual string of oaths.

  • Suddenly, before she reached the terrace, she heard a firm step upon the crisp gravel, and the next moment her husband's figure emerged out of the shadow.

  • She heard no one speak of England or sigh for the English home across the sea.

  • Eat more carefully, my child," said the mother, and Toinette laughed again as she heard her.

  • So, just as Little Girl was wishing as hard as ever she could wish, she heard a Tiny Voice say, "Hold tight to his arm!

  • When she had gone to the window she had fancied that she heard something in the corridor outside her door, but when she had listened there had been only silence.

  • She heard a low, evidently unintentionally uttered exclamation, and she turned away, and with no attempt at softening the sound of her footsteps walked across the room, hot with passionate disgust.

  • Damned bad management not to bring something else," she heard.

  • It was time Ludlow married some girl with money," she heard said of one such union.

  • She heard him, one evening, talking with her father about the principles of trade.

  • She heard, on her return from her daily employment, that Mr Farquhar had brought a little gentle pony on which Leonard, weak as he was, might ride.

  • She heard a rustle of a silken gown, and knew it ought not to have been worn in a sick-room; for her senses seemed to have passed into the keeping of the invalid, and to feel only as he felt.

  • She heard a loud chattering of many voices and looked out.

  • She heard no footsteps, no movements of humanity in the house.

  • She heard a tornado of voices outside, a horse neighing and trampling, a scuffling of feet, but she did not glance round.

  • She saw, she heard, as she had never seen and heard till now.

  • She heard a chair creak in the distance and glanced over her shoulder.

  • Whilst she watched the particles of dust floating before the brilliant chink she heard a carriage and horses stop opposite the front of the house.

  • Finally, when courting sleep with all her art, she heard a clock strike two.

  • She heard the steps of Vassily Lukitch coming up to the door and coughing; she heard, too, the steps of the nurse as she came near; but she sat like one turned to stone, incapable of beginning to speak or to get up.

  • Dolly stood beside them; she heard them, but she did not answer.

  • As she passed through the drawing room she heard a carriage stop at the entrance, and looking out of the window she saw the carriage, from which a young girl in a lilac hat was leaning out giving some direction to the footman ringing the bell.

  • She heard Vronsky's abrupt ring and hurriedly dried her tears-- not only dried her tears, but sat down by a lamp and opened a book, affecting composure.

  • She heard a quick drawn breath that was not Baskinelli's.

  • She heard a voice that seemed strangely familiar giving abrupt orders.

  • She heard Harry's racquet drop and saw him hurdle the net.

  • She heard a call from an automobile beside the track and rode, over to where Harry and Owen were seated in the car.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she heard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    she added; she appeared; she began; she determined; she did not know; she died; she don; she faltered; she had always been; she had never before; she had never known; she left; she looked; she read; she sat; she should; she thinks; she took; she would have been; sheep raising; sheet iron; shell burst; shell fire; shew thyself; still preserved; threw himself