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[ US /ˈiɹˌʃɑt, ˈɪɹˌʃɑt/ ]
[ UK /ˈi‍əʃɒt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the range within which a voice can be heard
    the children were told to stay within earshot

How To Use earshot In A Sentence

  • And there are symbolic margins along which men get a worse deal than 100 years ago - modern males are probably more afraid to make sexist remarks within earshot of their wives. Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • He will tell it to anyone who is in earshot and who he thinks can exert influence.
  • Fast fighter jets -- many traveling within earshot of the sound barrier -- will headline the shows.
  • What I hadn't realised, though was that it had happened pretty much as soon I was out of earshot round the corner.
  • Anyone within earshot of a eulogy is supposed to listen respectfully.
  • Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
  • Such as Clayton Williams, the Texas man who was idiotic enough to make the following comment about rape within earshot of a reporter while running for the gubernatorial seat: Think Progress » After Sending His Producer To Stalk And Ambush Me, O’Reilly To Again Speak At Rape Survivors’ Benefit
  • Waiting 'til her daughter was out of earshot, she aimed her anger and resentment at Mitch.
  • From her indignant retelling, she said that they even commented, in earshot, that she must not be a “proper Chinese”. I can’t be racist! I’m Asian! — Fusion Despatches
  • It is within earshot of a main road.
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