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[ US /ˈiɹˌʃɑt, ˈɪɹˌʃɑt/ ]
[ UK /ˈi‍əʃɒt/ ]

NOUN

the range within which a voice can be heard
the children were told to stay within earshot

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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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