poor ear

Example Sentences

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In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music."

From Time Magazine Archive

I jerked the phone away from my poor ear.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it.

From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark

And, oh! that poor ear, how it did smart, and how loud the noise of the box did sound!

From The Book of One Syllable by Bakewell, Esther

When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he doesn't say it.

From Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Twain, Mark