overhear

Example Sentences

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You can talk to it, let it overhear your day and—in the case of glasses—let it see what you’re seeing in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Further along the footpath around the old dock, I overhear an American accent.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

I regularly overhear other birders marveling over the flashy warblers in breeding plumage, while overlooking other comparatively less-flashy birds like vireos and sparrows.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

Over the dull roar of passing vehicles, I would overhear fearful whispers in Mandarin about her health and medical care, which always shifted to Taiyu when I was around.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

I’d overhear the reporters at The Welch Daily News make jokes to one another about the highfalutin writers who worked at those papers.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls