Hear is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like receive or examine. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hear in a sentence
Related words
Hear meaning
- To perceive sounds through the ear.
- To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
- To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
Synonyms of Hear
Hear vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Hear
- The main meaning on this page is: To perceive sounds through the ear. | To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
- Useful related words include: pick up, receive, examine, probe.
- Possible Dutch translations are: horen.
- In the example corpus, hear often appears in combinations such as: to hear, hear the, hear about.
Example sentences (20)
Asked what attracted to “strong” roles, Saldana said: “Every time I hear the word ‘strong’, I just hear the word woman, and sometimes I hear that adjective of strength – it encompasses what a woman is.
But when you look at midlevel to senior-level tech talent, you’ll hear the governor talk about it, you’ll hear the mayor talk about it, you’ll hear the TechPoint guys talk about it.
Also, most members of the audience have paid good money to hear the professional cast sing the songs, not hear you wailing along and making up the lyrics.
And, it turns out, jurors find ways to hear what they want to hear.
And those words are wonderful no matter how many times you hear them and I could hear them beautifully sung by the extraordinary cast of this tremendous show, appropriately titled Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, A Great Big Broadway Show.
At the same time, though, when you hear a Mike Bloomberg, when you hear a major American figure, a major leader of the Jewish community, rabbis, speaking out, does that have an impact on the government in a different kind of way?
But I didn't hear you, maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear you talk too much about the roll-to-roll systems.
He can sense their desire to hear someone who looks like him tell them what they want to hear.
I dunno, but every time I hear "park ranger" I can't help but hear in my head, Yogi telling Boo-boo to steal a picky-nick basket.
I hear heavy breathing coming from all around me, and I can hear the two-ton bastards starting to move.
I hear things from my family that I would never imagine that I would hear.
In today's world, you have to mock up all of your cues with synthesizers and samples for directors to hear what's going on, which makes a ton of sense; before they get to the expensive scoring stage, they know what they're going to hear.
Number one is I hope we're going to hear about every contract, say, why don't we hear about all these reseller contracts?
This is actually what society wants to hear and our children need to hear," she said.
What is hard is those who think changing the Gospel to fit their narrative — those who can see and hear but refuse to see and hear — is making them happy about themselves.
While it's pretty unlikely you'll hear any new songs debuted at the shows, guitarist that you might hear some old stuff you haven't heard in a while.
All of it went out the window, I couldn't hear the song, I could only hear the people.
And, as the old soldiers would say, you are lucky if you hear it, because you never hear what actually kills you.
But to hear from someone other than Rory McIlroy and to hear his response to Rory is important as Kim has 1 PGA Tour win in 220 starts (100 cuts made) and is much more indicative of the ‘every man’ playing on the PGA Tour.
I can hear it through the wall- my bedbound mum watches this, and the only sounds I can hear from the broadcast are these!
Common combinations with hear
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to hear 125×
- hear the 33×
- hear about 19×
- hear from 18×
- and hear 15×
- hear it 15×
- you hear 14×
- can hear 14×
- hear what 13×
- we hear 10×