other words for overhear
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She turned her head over her shoulder, as though afraid some one might overhear.
By turning on the receiving end, he could overhear conversations in the guardroom.
Then he glanced at her and out through the open door, to make sure none could overhear.
It was comforting to overhear them say to each other on the journey: "This is fine, mate, ain't it?"
But, unable to overhear the two women, who were conversing in an undertone, he hurried upstairs toward his employer's bedroom.
"It's a pity you ain't, then," growled Smith, who had returned just in time to overhear this remark.
And what he managed to overhear of it was seemingly quite innocent of value to us.
If you are near enough to this perch you may overhear the zee-e-e-e-e-e-e-e that has earned it the name of grasshopper sparrow.
"He's been there all day," said his mother, who had come to the door just in time to overhear him.
Allen, sitting so close behind them, was forced to overhear, so piercingly sweet was her voice.