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hearer

[ US /ˈhiɹɝ/ ]
[ UK /hˈi‍əɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who listens attentively

How To Use hearer In A Sentence

  • Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant in the sense ‘generous in amount, extent’ or in the sense Perry suggests.
  • Stay to the hearer of is an enjoy of fantasy sort.
  • The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them into story tellers too. Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
  • When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not “good form,” and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word “beslobber” was alleged; my young hearers were not Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers. The Last Man
  • We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • a figurative kind, as the word peacock, and furthermore the allusion to Nicholas's nose, which was not intended to be taken in its literal sense, but rather to bear a latitude of construction according to the fancy of the hearers. Nicholas Nickleby
  • Shrek went under the shearer's blade during a live half - hour news programme on TV New Zealand.
  • Since the 1880s, the national culture has celebrated the underdog - the Eureka gold miners, sheep stealing swaggies, renegade bushrangers, and striking shearers.
  • At Wembley, still seeking low-gear fitness, at times he brought to mind not so much a young Alan Shearer as the old Alan Shearer, a single pummelling shooting boot, to be unpackaged and wheeled about the park like a rust-bound first world war field gun. England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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