Explore Hears through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hears in a sentence
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Hears meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of hear
Using Hears
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of hear
- In the example corpus, hears often appears in combinations such as: he hears, hears the, she hears.
Context around Hears
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hears
- In this selection, "hears" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, court, cal, appeals, civil, criminal and murder stand out and add context to how "hears" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and later hears about his and anyone who hears it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hears" sits close to words such as attire, bates and battleground, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hears
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He hears you, your thoughts, and your emotions. (8 words)
He laughs when he hears Pádraic’s donkey has died. (10 words)
Hartlepool murder suspects appear before judge as court hears two others 'may be. (13 words)
Dickow said he's "embarrassed' by the praise he hears from admirers, but acknowledges that there's a fire in him to help those brothers and sisters in arms who served their country, often paid a heavy price for it, and now deserve a second chance. (46 words)
Death welcomes Joker into the gang, making him immune to injury (since he's technically a ghost possessing a dead body), and giving his laughter the power to explode the heads of anyone who hears it. (36 words)
I mean, if something happens in New York, then the entire country hears about it and it's kind of been that way since the, you know, the golden age of early television in the fifties. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Holy Spirit tells our spirit only what he hears from Jesus, and Jesus speaks only what He hears from God.
If Cal hears about the freedom fighter and Jedi Padawan Ezra and later hears about his disappearance, it could help him understand how quickly one's life can change course.
Oklahoma has two courts of last resort: the state Supreme Court hears civil cases, and the state Court of Criminal Appeals hears criminal cases (this split system exists only in Oklahoma and neighboring Texas).
The Supreme Court (Chief Justice) hears murder and similarly serious cases, and the Court of Appeal, hears appeals from convicted individuals seeking to have their sentences overturned.
According to the story, Moses hears the rest, and then God writes the words on stone tablets.
At the end of the movie, Gamora finally hears what Groot actually means, and it’s a nice moment.
Brexiteer keeps the faith on BBC Newsnight special that hears from one business that spells out how much leaving the EU has cost it.
But leaning out of her balcony, she hears the dynamic preaching of Paul and decides on a radically different path.
But then again, the more TCU hears it can’t do something, the more likely it is to do just that.
Council hears general public comments unrelated to the agenda at the beginning of each meeting.
Death welcomes Joker into the gang, making him immune to injury (since he's technically a ghost possessing a dead body), and giving his laughter the power to explode the heads of anyone who hears it.
Despite the silence coming from his diamond-encrusted watch, he still clearly hears the ticks inaudibly ringing in his head.
Dickow said he's "embarrassed' by the praise he hears from admirers, but acknowledges that there's a fire in him to help those brothers and sisters in arms who served their country, often paid a heavy price for it, and now deserve a second chance.
Francis is just doing his job when he feels the cold steal of a gun to his head and hears the familiar voice of John Wick, the underworld's greatest killer.
Fraser and Clive Hunt co-produced Reggae Christmas Classics which hears artists such as Nadine Sutherland covering Stevie Wonder’s Someday at Christmas and Christopher Martin doing a rendition of Donny Hathaway’s This Christmas.
Hartlepool murder suspects appear before judge as court hears two others 'may be.
He hears the concerns and requests of clubs and aims to treat them fairly with assistance and funding.
He hears you, your thoughts, and your emotions.
He laughs when he hears Pádraic’s donkey has died.
I mean, if something happens in New York, then the entire country hears about it and it's kind of been that way since the, you know, the golden age of early television in the fifties.
Common combinations with hears
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- he hears 30×
- hears the 28×
- she hears 23×
- court hears 17×
- hears from 15×
- hears about 15×
- hears that 12×
- hears it 10×
- who hears 8×
- and hears 8×