hearing distance
Example Sentences
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If you know there are people within hearing distance, call to them for help, but do not scream or yell, it says.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
This puts patients in the uncomfortable position of having to explain their transgender status to the front desk within hearing distance of other patients.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 1, 2021
Kinkade, an assistant Polk County attorney, argued that Sahouri and Robnett were within hearing distance when police gave orders to disperse, but that they stayed with the crowd.
From Fox News ● Mar. 11, 2021
There were other pedestrians, black and white, within hearing distance.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2017
“The cook told me it is too dangerous. He said that we should travel on the city streets, keeping the freeway in sight or in hearing distance all the time.”
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
