HEARING in a Sentence

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For HEARING, below is one of 247 sentences:
She had lived too long among people who dissembled politely not to feel disturbed at hearing her own thoughts put into words.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEARING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hearing
 n.  opportunity to be heard; capacity to hear; judicial investigation of a suit at law
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He listened for Zeena's step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Why, you--you must be the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about--the blockade runner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Scarlett felt pleased at hearing of their exploits, pleased in a proprietary manner.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Rhett, hearing of this from Melanie, brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a lace veil and presented them to her as a wedding gift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  But still, she was jarred at hearing him attack the very traditions that irked her most.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  She had lived too long among people who dissembled politely not to feel disturbed at hearing her own thoughts put into words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  A pagan hearing the lapping of the waters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Young Carey looked confused and pleased at hearing such statements from settled matrons and spinsters like Mrs. Meade and Melanie and Aunt Pitty and Fanny, and tried to hope that Scarlett really meant it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  What Melanie said was no more than Scarlett had been thinking but hearing it put into words infuriated her, shamed her as if her secret cowardice was written plainly in her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  She stood shaking, listening to his words, hardly hearing them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Gerald stared at her for a moment as if not hearing her and she repeated her question.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  "That's the first time I ever heard of a Yankee doing a decent thing," said Grandma, as if she regretted hearing anything good about the invaders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Your mother is dead, and it's just like I was hearing it again for the first time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  At hearing such serious words about hogs from these ex-dandies who had never given life a more serious thought than which cravat was most fashionable, Scarlett laughed and this time her laugh was bitter too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Naturally, Pork and Dilcey and Mammy gave vent to loud guffaws at hearing the detractor of their beloved Tara set at naught.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  This programme will be broadcast with subtitles for the hard of hearing.
17  The senator worked hard, always talking to his constituents and hearing their problems.
18  On hearing that her husband was ill, she balled of that work and hurried back home.
19  It was interesting hearing about his experiences as a policeman.
20  The judge adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday.
21  On hearing the news, he made out of the room.
22  She wonders whether Paul's hearing is OK because he turns the television up very loud.
23  During the court hearing, the prosecutor said she would seek maximum prison sentences.
24  She suffered a significant loss of hearing after the operation.
25  According to testimony at the guilty plea hearing, Mr. Haltinner, used an assumed online identity to sell approximately 637000 stolen credit card numbers.
26  If you're interested in hearing from the guy who's helping drive the fundraising train, read it here.
27  Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a paradigm of the conditioned-response experiment in behavioral psychology.
28  His lawyer says the case is uncertain if he'll testify at congressional hearing.
29  To prevent the jurors from hearing news broadcasts about the case, the judge decided to sequester the jury.
30  He made out of the cabin at once on hearing the siren.