earful
Example Sentences
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But if you try to place a piece of this infrastructure in their communities, well, someone in the administration is going to get an earful.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
Ask any basketball coach you know and they’ll give you an earful about the attrition of whole-court vision and underappreciated talents like moving without the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Atkins remains optimistic about her adopted home state, notwithstanding her unsuccessful run for governor and the earful of criticisms she heard along the way,
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
I was about to get an earful on the book’s background and a postage-paid primer on my own writing life.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025
Big Ma would have given me an earful the second I came into the living room, where she sat in her chair, resewing Pa’s shirt buttons.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
