Wondering how to use Overhear in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as catch or hear.
Overhear meaning
To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.
Using Overhear
- The main meaning on this page is: To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.
- Useful related words include: catch, take in, hear.
- In the example corpus, overhear often appears in combinations such as: overhear the, overhear one, will overhear.
Context around Overhear
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overhear
- In this selection, "overhear" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, liam, loved, something and officers stand out and add context to how "overhear" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include case will overhear the whole and forced to overhear a conversation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overhear" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overhear
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Don’t let The Apostle Jesus Loved overhear that blasphemy! (10 words)
What exactly will Liam overhear and what will he do with this information? (13 words)
General Hospital spoilers say Nelle will overhear some leverage that she can make work for her. (16 words)
Quite why you'd pay for a ticket for an in-demand gig like this, and then spend it swilling your tinnies and shouting loudly about your holidays, Victorian authors (seriously) and other such snippets I couldn't help but overhear, I'll never know. (45 words)
You don't have to have that liquid courage either, you could wind up at the wrong place at the wrong time, overhear something you shouldn't have, or, hear an intoxicated coworker talk about how much more money they make than you do. (44 words)
It’s hard to have a conversation today, or even overhear one, without being exposed to moronic – and I now use that word in its colloquial as well as its clinical sense – opinions about what “we” should do. (38 words)
What exactly will Liam overhear and what will he do with this information? (13 words)
Don’t let The Apostle Jesus Loved overhear that blasphemy! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Listeners tend to be more annoyed by overheard phone conversations than they are by overheard in-person conversations because we only overhear one side of the conversation.
Maybe Spencer will overhear a conversation that he shouldn’t or find some other evidence that points to Dex’s betrayal with Michael.
Quite why you'd pay for a ticket for an in-demand gig like this, and then spend it swilling your tinnies and shouting loudly about your holidays, Victorian authors (seriously) and other such snippets I couldn't help but overhear, I'll never know.
You don't have to have that liquid courage either, you could wind up at the wrong place at the wrong time, overhear something you shouldn't have, or, hear an intoxicated coworker talk about how much more money they make than you do.
As I sat down in a corner booth enveloped by periwinkle walls, it was hard to not overhear a customer’s conversation with their server.
General Hospital spoilers say Nelle will overhear some leverage that she can make work for her.
It’s hard to have a conversation today, or even overhear one, without being exposed to moronic – and I now use that word in its colloquial as well as its clinical sense – opinions about what “we” should do.
McWilliam said she would overhear officers commenting on the appearance of women coming into the station.
As I was seated in the crowd I must relay, I did overhear one young girl tell another ” I want to be like her”.
Sharon Newman (Sharon Case) will overhear the whole Rey/Adam argument, which will prompt her to go to Adam’s penthouse and question him about what Rey believes.
The two get into an argument, the children are in the other room and overhear the argument.
What exactly will Liam overhear and what will he do with this information?
A doctor attended a patient while at an adjacent consultation desk, a patient could overhear the conversation.
Don’t let The Apostle Jesus Loved overhear that blasphemy!
He didn’t want other people to overhear such a thing and to think others were better than he.
Not so much when you overhear a using the expression at the doctor’s office (which I have).
So we can fully understand Kayleigh’s eye-rolling behaviour when she’s forced to overhear a conversation between John and his bore of a manager Dave.
According to Steinhaus, while he was strolling through the gardens he was surprised to overhear the term "Lebesgue integral" ( Lebesgue integration was at the time still a fairly new idea in mathematics) and walked over to investigate.
On the forward deck, they witness a collision with an iceberg and overhear the officers and designer discussing its seriousness.
The visitor to 21st Century LDS church services will never hear spontaneous, incomprehensible glossolalia as one might overhear at a Pentecostal service.
Common combinations with overhear
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: