Wondering how to use Earful in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as gossip or reprehension.
Earful in a sentence
Earful meaning
- an angry reprimand, castigation or telling off
- intimate gossip
Synonyms of Earful
Using Earful
- The main meaning on this page is: an angry reprimand, castigation or telling off | intimate gossip
- Useful related words include: gossip, reprehension, reproval, reproof.
- In the example corpus, earful often appears in combinations such as: an earful, earful of, earful from.
Context around Earful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Earful
- In this selection, "earful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thanks stand out and add context to how "earful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include get an earful for not and get an earful of very. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "earful" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with earful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like Luffy, Lucci receives an earful from his companion for his idiotic confession. (13 words)
Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie got an earful when constituents learned of the bricks’ planned demise. (16 words)
The hedge fund that’s at Southwest Airlines () wants to give its fellow shareholders an earful. (16 words)
Envisioned as a larger version of the two-decade-old “Midtown Blue,” the concept was proposed at a September community meeting by Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts, who recently moved to Peachtree Road and got an earful of street-racing noise. (42 words)
In New York City, where more than seventy thousand people are unhoused, locals know that the place to get an earful of very loud opera along with your Big Gulp is a 7-Eleven near the Port Authority Bus Terminal. (40 words)
Man, this is a lot of running around, but my visiting country-loving friends need an earful of Spokane's for sure, and they're just up Sprague at nYne, so we're hustling there for some of their set. (40 words)
You should have heard the earful I got before taping this week about last week’s exit bumper tune! (19 words)
Example sentences (16)
In New York City, where more than seventy thousand people are unhoused, locals know that the place to get an earful of very loud opera along with your Big Gulp is a 7-Eleven near the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Like Luffy, Lucci receives an earful from his companion for his idiotic confession.
You should have heard the earful I got before taping this week about last week’s exit bumper tune!
Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie got an earful when constituents learned of the bricks’ planned demise.
Nevertheless, there she was, not merely giving leadership an earful but joining an unprecedented ouster of the man who’d fundraised for her and worked with her office to help her pass legislation.
Sudesh attributes his over-caring nature and tendency to take on other people’s problems to being a Cancerian, but he laughingly adds, “My wife Hema pulls me back and gives me an earful.
The hedge fund that’s at Southwest Airlines () wants to give its fellow shareholders an earful.
Envisioned as a larger version of the two-decade-old “Midtown Blue,” the concept was proposed at a September community meeting by Fulton County Commission Chairman Robb Pitts, who recently moved to Peachtree Road and got an earful of street-racing noise.
Giving an earful to the government in the United States, Pierce said that there is complete chaos in his homeland as the government is not taking care of people in the health crisis unlike the Indian government.
Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering) will get an earful for not standing up to Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney).
Trustees got an earful in response and Estabrooks said she wanted a do-over on the program suspension vote.
However, you don’t actually have to go to Dalston to get an earful, thanks to the venue’s nomadic Giant Steps sound system, created in association with the Analogue Foundation.
Not only did Raveena remind her of her unprofessionalism but apparently also gave her an earful on commitment towards the work.
If developers seek projects beyond it and toward the lake, Sorensen vows she'll be the first person on the phone giving them an earful.
I marched VerMeulen over to the closest bar, P.J. Clarke’s, bought him a large drink, and gave him an earful of the Legends of Zelda, apocryphal gossip that we swapped gleefully about the office.
Man, this is a lot of running around, but my visiting country-loving friends need an earful of Spokane's for sure, and they're just up Sprague at nYne, so we're hustling there for some of their set.
Common combinations with earful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an earful 16×
- earful of 4×
- earful from 2×