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

I listened until his truck was out of hearing distance.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin