hear voices
Example Sentences
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"I said to myself I'm not going to waste my energy - I'm going to scream when it's needed, when I hear voices or steps nearby," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
If a shot starts on his shoe and pans up into the scene, maybe you hear voices before you see who is talking.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
Many mysteries remain about the origins of hallucinations, but one hypothesis suggests that when people hear voices, they are hearing their own thoughts disguised as another person’s by a quirk of the brain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
“They start to hear voices, hallucinate, they start to get paranoid about people who care about them,” Cyndee Wilson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Later the ceiling turned to wooden planks, and I could hear voices above us and the creaking of footsteps, as if we were walking under some kind of bar.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
