How To Use Overhear In A Sentence

The friend had also overheard the man say he had disposed of the handgun used in the crime, according to the in - formant. Just A 'Random' Crime
I overheard two fifteen year old girls behind me at the ATM planning to get together tomorrow night and eat ice cream and comfort each other when they didn't get any valentines.
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
We overheard the teacher say there would be a pop quiz today.
I overhear the tail-end of a conversation my sister is having with someone or other.

We ended our snack (better described as lunch) with a large pot of Chinese tea, overhearing snatches of conversation from a neighbouring table.
I'm only going on what I overheard him saying to Chris, but I think he's planning to leave next month.
Two men were overheard talking about the infidelities of an office Romeo.
The suspense film "Overheard 2" revealed its English poster yesterday at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
While sitting in a coffee shop, we overheard a woman tearfully tell her husband that she was sorry that her work had been so consuming.
On one occasion, in hospital after an operation, Pegg awoke from his anaesthetically induced coma an hour too early, confounding doctors until it was realised he must have overheard a fellow patient on the ward watching The Guardian World News
French corporate executive was overheard lauding the merits of China's Five-Year plans.
She had overheard a private conversation between two MPs.
I remember overhearing them speaking French to one another and venturing a ‘bonjour.’
Pretty soon I overheard a conversation between two muddled buyers.
I'm only going on what I overheard him saying to Chris, but I think he's planning to leave next month.
I went to the woody area in the middle of the maze in the courtyard of our school that not many people know even exists and began to eat my lunch when I overheard Mercedes and another girl talking.
I'm only going on what I overheard him saying to Chris, but I think he's planning to leave next month.
We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said.
The enemy had overheard the firing and ambuscaded us. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59
I overheard these older girls talking about him being a dreamboat but I just see him as Scott, the kid that had to go to the doctor because he swallowed eight marbles whole.
Excuse me for interrupting, but I couldn't help overhearing what you were saying.
The words I had overheard bore no reference to Bartleby but to the success or nonsuccess of some candidate for the mayoralty. Bartleby
This choice bit of dialogue was overheard by a loiterer.
As to Sproul, there is not much to say about a retromingent.11/16/2006 12:19:00 PM|W|P| 206isCancer.com|W|P|Senator Bee had told me once during the election cycle that it infurated him This might just be my word, I can't actually see Senator Bee mad when he would overhear staffers in the hallway talking about the need to push for their legislation. Archive 2006-11-01
Once inside, I found myself disappointed to find a bland platter of nothing more than carrots& celery with ranch dressing [semi-fresh, at that; it was picked up from a convenience store around the corner, I gleaned from overheard conversation later] and a sole, glum keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon ™ brewski. Ennui
She saw again the Dinard letter and his furious despair at a word overheard at a wine-shop table. The French Immortals Series — Complete
At that moment a duck paddled near, and overhearing this, she laughed.
They were infamous rumour mongers because they overheard a lot of idle chatter at the latrines.
I do remember overhearing them one other time while they were saddling up their horses.
Unfortunately for him he was overheard by the conductress.
Not long afterward, Butterfield, a clerk in the P. P. R. S. office, overheard a conversation between Elderson, the manager, and a German.
A nightwatchman later overheard him bragging about his duplicity and arrested him.
Unrecognised by fellow diners, he could not overhearing the conversation of two women sitting nearby.
One other member was overheard saying, ‘The people who trod these grapes hadn't washed their feet.’
Unobserved, he took the vacant upper berth of a crowded compartment and overheard the loud conversation of a group of British officers.
(Method as in E, -- swimming out to neighboring king's casco and overhearing conversation.) Filipino Popular Tales
She's writing interesting stuff and I LOVE the fact that she overhears some very fascinating conversations in her gig as a coffee barista and shares them on her blog.
After my relating an experience from over the week-end, Kate and Deborah suggested that we should have a competition for the most outlandish thing overheard from a fellow audience member over the course of the next season. Archive 2006-09-01
At intermission, I overheard a listener complain about an emotional colorlessness despite the piece's exciting surface. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Jonathan Biss Beats the CRIS
At a moment like this, in the abrupt silence after Lewis's voice trails off, the listener often overhears Mitchell in the background trying to stifle his laughter.
We went outside so that we could talk freely without being overheard.
Once, polishing the brasswork on the hand-rails of the cabin companionway, Daughtry overheard the ancient one explaining his terrible scar and missing fingers to Grimshaw and the Armenian CHAPTER X
Rene laughed at me, having overheard my long phone chat and assumed it was some old buddy, and I told her that no, it was still the Telstra guy, and we were having a yarn while his technology tried to sort itself out.
I overheard a very funny conversation on the bus this morning.
Con Maynard, sitting at the head of the table, overheard and gave the sinner a warning look. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
While sitting in a coffee shop, we overheard a woman tearfully tell her husband that she was sorry that her work had been so consuming.
She tuned back into the here and now to overhear Serena, Gloria and Liz discussing clothes. JUST BETWEEN US
Still, Stella couldn't resist straining to overhear the conversation. JUST BETWEEN US
Mr. Mahy, was overheard yelling, "You're Luke Skywalker and I'm Darth Vader !" while jabbing his opponent. Creative Class: Fencing and Fashion
I've overheard discussion of a certain arrangement of features known as a unibrow; well, I had a uniface. Wake Up, Sir!
Mikel overheard Monthay discussing the strategic merits of the Warlord's decision with another sergeant. TREASON KEEP
One day, however, a Nashville songwriter named David Chase overheard Hill singing in the office.
Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked World War One veteran, overhears people discussing the matter.
Flash forward to Miami International Airport, the said cake bearer is overheard cussing and carrying on in a most unruly fashion.
I've overheard discussion of a certain arrangement of features known as a unibrow; well, I had a uniface. Wake Up, Sir!
After one song, I overheard somebody dismissing them as "some kind of spaz band". Black Market Kidneys » There Was Heat From The Desert, But I Froze When I Saw The Arcade Fire: Coachella 2005
He had overheard his mom brag about the "killing" she had made on some cripple ranunculus (the lady at the supermarket practically gave the flowers away, rather than toss them out). Brocante / Antiques
I had once overheard an enamelled queen of fashion declare, with much emotion, that their curate was indispensable to a high-class "at home," and even panegyrize his graceful transportation of cups of tea, however full. St. Cuthbert's
Father goes over to follow up potential job prospects, everything seems to be moving smoothly and then one afternoon he overhears a conversation I'm having with a good friend.
I overheard a fragment of their conversation.
Oberon: But who comes here? I am invisible. And I will overhear their conference.
I overheard a very funny conversation on the bus this morning.
I thought that the father overheard complaints about the robberies and used it as a cover to get rid of their sick child, but it was even cagier than that. I Reckon : Bev Vincent
It cannot be termed discourtesy in Sir Kenneth, that, situated as he was, he overheard a conversation, in which he found himself deeply interested. The Talisman
And when speech gave way to the rhythmic breathing and small cries or even angry groans that I never tired of overhearing?
They must have learnt from the landlord that I had my ear to their window when he had arrived, and it is most likely that they, the devil priest in particular, would have recognised me from the tavern where I had first overheard their scheming.
I overhear two people marvelling over the same specimen.
Ultimately, the prosecution's case came down to a short conversation between Wilhelm and Brimble seven years ago, overheard by cabinmate Ryan Kuchel, who had said he had been woken when Brimble and Wilhelm came to his cabin. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
Children will hear conversations and overhear information on radio, TV and from the playground network.
When I exited the screening of “Sleepwalking”, I overheard a theatre-goer question a friend. Sleepwalking…a well-crafted Charlize Theron film! Actor Nick Stahl excels… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
He recently overheard two children in one of the palace's galleries saying to one another that maybe one of the workstations was free now and they could go back to it.
Oberon: But who comes here? I am invisible. And I overhear their conference.
He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
I overheard a very funny conversation on the bus this morning.
He must have come in unobserved at the back door while they had been sitting there, and there was absolutely no telling when he had come or how much of their conversation he had overheard. The Mystery at Number Six
The girl is in a rage because she has overheard him saying that his involvement with her in no big deal.
A keen German radio ham, named only as Michael B, overheard a policeman calling for help after his car got stuck in a muddy field near Frankfurt.
She was not present when Zabdas sought the qadi soon after his conversion; but in view of what was overheard and passed on, and what happened later, eventually she believed she could reconstruct it almost as well as if she had been invisibly listening. The Boat of a Million Years
He took her arm and hurried her upstairs so that they wouldn't be overheard.
Still, Stella couldn't resist straining to overhear the conversation. JUST BETWEEN US
In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
My favorite overheard one-liner from one audient was: "Oh, I hear the Polo is orrrf in Jerusalem this year". Wow
As I dunked the teabag into and out of the boiling water a couple of times, I couldn't help but overhear the strains of a one-sided conversation that drifted into the room.
She hurled the words at him in the desire that somebody would overhear them and come gallantly running to her rescue.
But either Mistress Jean's influx of caution came too late, and someone had overheard her suggestion, or the idea was already abroad in the mind bucolic and georgic, for that very night it began to be reported upon the nearer farms, that the Mains of Glashruach was haunted by a brownie who did all the work for both men and maids -- a circumstance productive of different opinions with regard to the desirableness of a situation there, some asserting they would not fee to it for any amount of wages, and others averring they could desire nothing better than a place where the work was all done for them. Sir Gibbie
He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
Then I overheard that my encephalopathic patient was refusing the LP, the LP I'd consented her for, and night float was thinking about starting empiric IV antibiotics. Hand off problems or lack of personal responsibility by physician
If I struggle, I can remember the new bicycle sitting on the porch on the morning of my birthday that year, and how I overheard much later that it had been a deciding factor in her decision.
The nurse had picked up the information from a conversation she overheard.
During one of my more lucid periods, I overheard Antonio arguing with an orderly about bringing food into the room.
Whoever secretly overhears, or attempts secretly to overhear or to have any other person overhear the deliberations of a jury by use of a device commonly known as a dictograph or dictaphone, or however otherwise described, or by any similar device or arrangement with intent to procure any information relative to the conduct of such jury or any of its members, shall be punished by im - prisonment for not more than five years or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or both. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
All of a sudden, she spoke clearly and he could overhear snatches of the conversation.
Lord Beaufort surprised them by a clever ambuscade from the stable wall; he told Mary he had been quite mistaken and wrong in what he had asserted, and he was sorry that she had overheard it. The Semi-Attached Couple
The story in Seymour about the old monk dying and trying to overhear a conversation about washing, over the pious hubbub of the surrounding crowd is bathetic in the true sense.
The iffy sound complements the imperfect appeal of Dinosaur Jr: it's like overhearing a disturbing secret.
He looked around cautiously to see if anyone could overhear, but the booths were designed for privacy.
A Genovese crime family capo known as ‘Sammy Meatballs’ was overheard talking about the union.
The researchers will also note every time they hear or overhear the words being used in conversation.
Next from Heller, Boccaccio's "D Cameron". a series of tall tales by exiled spinmeister Andy Coulson, all in the form of overheard conversations. Hugh Muir's diary
He imagined Godwin's chagrined shock, could he have overheard. THE LAST RAVEN
She tuned back into the here and now to overhear Serena, Gloria and Liz discussing clothes. JUST BETWEEN US
She had been in a convalescent home and had overheard an elderly woman talking about a Norwegian couple who had adopted a child.
If the Scripps Spelling Bee had been a Mark Burnett-style production, we'd have been treated to behind-the-scenes footage of players forming alliances, strategizing to trip up the frontrunners; Isabel Jacobson, the last female speller standing (you go, girl!), pitting the boys against each other by stage-whispering invitations to clandestine trysts; We'd "overhear" overstressed kids being browbeaten by parents who'd caught them peaking at comic books rather than practicing Croatian conjugation. Brenda Scott Royce: Last Speller Standing
I overheard some cruel remarks about my husband.
As we looked at the paintings, we overheard another gallery visitor saying to her friend that the works were very restful.
Mr. Carter had overheard the attendant woman's conversation with Katerri.
I recently overheard some talk in which they were referred to as ‘jazz lite.’
Then, too, beyond this cross-lexical effect, there is the adjective's quiet anagrammaticization in the immediately following line, where "silent entangler" telescopes under conversion to "listener" — sleep apostrophized as if overhearing its own wordplay. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
However, children are knowledgeable and overhear a great deal.
Overhearing my own name barked into the transmitter, I listened without scruple. Branded
He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
Marc arrived very late, and overheard guests gossiping about him - "Who is his father?" one snob wondered aloud - and he mocked how gluttonously they eyed the wedding feast. Elizabeth Abbott: Eternal Happiness In A Wedding Dress
Without even having to strain his ears, he could overhear the girl muttering to herself in annoyance.
In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady.
In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
The story runs that Camillus, having carried his _cuniculus_ under the Temple of Juno within the citadel, overheard the Etruscan _aruspex_ declare to the king of Veii that victory would rest with him who completed the sacrifice. Pagan and Christian Rome
Overheard at the Bunch Family Salon, as WonderBaby raced in circles with a giant bottle purloined from the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre Props Corner: Dads Can Be Lactivists, Too! | Her Bad Mother
I'm only going on what I overheard him saying to Chris, but I think he's planning to leave next month.
A fellow reveller at the gathering said that he overheard the 20-year-old actor declare "I love weed" at a private house party in North London.
Open-ended narratives are pieced together from fragments of description and overheard conversations.
Ian Patrick, meanwhile, was ruminating on what he'd overheard the secretary say.
Adepts - or very powerful Mindspeakers - were so few that Savil seldom remembered that the Tayledras shared with Vanyel the ability to "overhear" any conversation that was not shielded against them. Magic's Price
I overheard part of their conversation.
Police also want to speak to three men who caught a train about 8.40 pm and were overheard talking about the incident.
This deprived him of his special pleasure in overhearing visitors' unprompted reactions to beauty. Times, Sunday Times
I overheard father say once that some of the other kingdoms are starting to side with him.
She overheard the culprit say, with bated breath and evident sincerity, to his comrades: "Hadn't nothing in my hat, anyway!" and one of the infant class was heard to complain, in a deeply-injured way, that the bird's nest was HIS, and had been "stoled" from his desk. Colonel Starbottle's Client
We overheard them playing "flat-hunting" almost every day, in which game one of them would assume the part of janitor to "show through" while the other would be a prospective tenant who surveyed things critically and made characteristic remarks, such as, "How many flights up? The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home
They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
Mel Gibson in What Women Want has freaky telepathic sex with Marisa Tomei, her overheard thoughts initially distracting him (“Is Britney Spears on Leno tonight?”) until he finds his superstud magic mojo rhythm: “You knew what I wanted and how I wanted it!” she moans in the sweaty aftermath. Double-X Films
To every smarty-pants who ever had to stifle her chuckles when overhearing some ninny explain that the reason the sky is blue is because it's reflecting the colour of the ocean, welcome home.
All i overhear is ‘now stop swearing’, ‘theres no need to shout abuse down the phone’, ‘if you continue to scream obscenities I will terminate the call’ … etc etc.. Another Day At The Office « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Hansel overheard the conversation and prepared for the inevitable by filling his pockets with pebbles.
As I prepare to share with you these woes, I overhear the latest news, via the news or l'info: near Grenoble, a 10-month-old baby was found starved to death in her berceau. French Word-A-Day:
The conversation was very easy to overhear; it contained no reference to the 'copping' of Jack. The Nether World
There, bending over barbet pieces, I overheard fragments of their conversation. Under the Rose
The comments, overheard and gleefully printed in the Liberation newspaper, have landed the French president deep in the merde on the eve of this week's crucial G8 summit in Scotland.
Yet he recalled the emaciated face and form, the cough, the trailing step, Miss Foster's anxiety, some comments overheard in the village. Eleanor
She ran as quickly as she could to her room, overhearing Mrs. Wargicz telling her great-nephew, ‘Is Meg ill or what?’
He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
Only once, when two Party members, both women, were pressed close together on the bench, he overheard amid the din of voices a few hurriedly-whispered words; and in particular a reference to something called room one-ohone, which he did not understand. Nineteen Eighty-Four
I overheard some cruel remarks about my husband.
An overheard conversation in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil, featuring a PR bint talking about her recent honeymoon.
They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
Freud invented a therapeutic setting, called psychoanalysis, in which this self could be overheard.
Overheard in Buenos Aires: "Yess, yess, he vass my SSSOULMATE! Archive 2009-07-01
Maybe I overheard a snide classmate making a joke about the déclassé audience, a comment that clashed with my resurfacing sense of kinship.
I'm only going on what I overheard him saying to Chris, but I think he's planning to leave next month.
In later years, I would overhear my father listening to it in the middle of the night, crying his eyes out.
They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
An early night allows for uninhibited intimate bodily coupling without worry of being overheard by a child.
If my family or any of the beardy artisans they hung out with had found my diaries, overheard the nightly phone conversations with confidantes, or worse still, mind-read my fantasies – a cartoonish swirl of novice sex scenes, stalking plans and romantic heroine delusions – I have no doubt they would have been shocked out of their idealism. Joanna Briscoe: Mr A, my unattainable love god
The conversation Greene had overheard was actually about the legitimate police squads who patrolled the miles of sewers criss-crossing the city, to prevent people travelling between the various sectors without authority.
They can be overheard mocking the previous two groups of interlopers.
Visited mad grandparental, usual dren (Topes, briefly overhearing said grandparent saying something about "the Germans" and my deciding this is a good time to not listen and let my brother be the sacrificial lamb this time). March 28th, 2005
I overheard from a bunch of those snot-nosed Etonians a while ago that there's this party that pervert was holding in his family's mansion.
One cinema-goer was overheard commenting that they wanted to see it because of its quirky title.
He suddenly re\expndtw-1 membered a name he had heard when one of his investiga\expndtw9 tions had taken him to London and he had overheard \expndtw4 some detectives in Scotland Yard gossiping. Poem About Never Growing Up
Do you really want to overhear his cooing conversations with another girl?
And she was pleased, as well as angered, when she chanced to overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls. CHAPTER VII
Wilde did not have such specific prescience, but I wonder if he didn't overhear the dim roar of airborne death somewhere over the horizon.
My daughter overheard and then called her brother a douchebag at which point a fight a broke out.
She overheard their conspiracy and intervened to thwart their plan by placing diversions in their path - attacking hounds; rich, tempting raiment dangling on elusive clotheslines; and many other such conjurations.
When she overhears plans to cut down the forest, Marian is determined to find a way to stop it. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Query Workshop
I might consider it the next time I happen to overhear my male colleagues engaging in lengthy, convoluted discussions regarding appropriate dress when appearing before female judges, much like the conversations my female colleagues and I have had over the years. Sui Generis--a New York law blog
Then, he overhears a conversation in a cafe and is convinced he has found Lisa, the woman he loved and lost two years earlier.
Later she overheard her supervisor bragging about this humiliating order to others.
A ringtone is a broadcast fashion statement, designed to be overheard.
Hidden in the forest, Von Rothbart had secretly overheard Siegfried's promise, and he swore he would stop this love.
In this account, an NSA analyst, identified in the book as Perry Fellwock, described overhearing Komarov tell ground control officials he knew he was about to die.
I overheard part of their conversation.
The worst kind was overheard by a friend at an interschool football match. The Sun
Once in the saloon, Val overheard two cowhands discussing the matter.
Comcast answers that question by giving a $5 one-time discount to every subscriber in Tucson, AZ who had their cerebellum gelatinized by seeing the porno movie that accidentally cut into the Super Bowl last night, according to a rumor a reporter we know overheard in their newsroom. The Consumerist: February 2009 Archives
I wanted to shout it out, let her know what I had overheard.
She didn't need to pitch her voice lower, for the teeth-rattling music took care of the concept of being overheard.
Simply include the word overheard in your update and share it with others. Archive 2007-10-01
In a North Beach bar one day, Caen happened to overhear poet Bob Kaufman playfully invent the word beatnik. The Typewriter Is Holy
Overheard the sun shone brightly, illuminating the garden with a brilliant ray of light.
Their road led them along the side of the same brook where Quentin had overheard the mysterious conference the preceding evening, and Hayraddin had not long rejoined them, ere they passed under the very willow tree which had afforded Durward the means of concealment, when he became an unsuspected hearer of what then passed betwixt that false guide and the lanzknecht. Quentin Durward
The FBI's breakthrough came after phones were tapped, and conversations overheard about recruitment difficulties for the scam.
It cannot be termed discourtesy in Sir Kenneth that, situated as he was, he overheard a conversation in which he found himself deeply interested. The Talisman
The man who comes to paint the stairhead is frightened, but I am not supposed to overhear about that. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
The threats appeared to be empty gestures to the friends who overheard him.
One manic Monday, while I was busy working for the weekend, I overheard him.
Amanda Knox, 20, and Raffaele Sollecito, 23, were shopping for lingerie in Rome Nov. 3 while hugging and kissing in an 'exhibitionist' style, the newspaper reported, when they were overheard making their x-rated plans. Someone Must Already Be Writing the Movie Script
betrayed by a word haply overheard
At the rental agency, I overheard a secretary giving some one else directions to the house.
The husband, who had left his hiding place and knocked at the door, now entered, and after saluting his wife, sat down, when having partaken of the refreshments provided for the gallants, the happy couple entered into conversation loud enough to be overheard by the wretched inamorati, who were quaking for fear of discovery. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
I overheard one woman complaining that she was sick of seeing it all over the telly, all day long.
overheard snatches of their conversation
Others will feel that they are overhearing your most unguarded thoughts.
He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
Because you don't really want complete strangers overhearing the most intimate details of your personal hygiene routine, do you?
This is a reference to Satan and his accomplices who try to creep up in the skies to overhear divine commandments.
I was savouring a cocktail in a busy bar last night when I overheard a group of men saying some jolly unpleasant things about ladyboys (kathoeys).
Mikel overheard Monthay discussing the strategic merits of the Warlord's decision with another sergeant. TREASON KEEP
Then I hallooed, first making sure that there was no one lurking near to overhear, and waved my handkerchief, keeping my horse standing to his fetlocks in the current, until over the water came an answering halloo from the Golden Horn, and I could plainly see Captain Calvin Tabor on the quarter-deck. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
In fact, I overheard a woman with a northern accent compare the range of crisps on sale with the selection at Erith.

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