How to Use earshot in a Sentence

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• They were within earshot of each other.
• Out of earshot of the troops, the workers still spoke in Ukrainian.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• And the clap-o-meter, at least within the A-lister’s earshot, was off the charts.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• McKellen and Dench were still in earshot of the band, and began to dance around the empty space.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2018
• Or talks about others at the very same party but out of earshot.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 June 2021
• That’s how scenes of wonder here tend to unfold: in earshot of the sciences.
  — Michael Owen, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
• Camp within earshot of Havasu Falls and hoof back to your car at sunup.
  — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Frank wants to throw her out, but Sarah—within David’s earshot—says that Mae has nowhere else to go.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• The two whispered in each other ears, well out of earshot of reporters.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• To be within earshot, your alarm must be reasonably close to the bed.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
• Surely many of them had passed within earshot of Jones's set.
  — Ed Blair, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017
• Nowadays, the insults don’t stop after a player is out of earshot of the crowd.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 28 July 2019
• His mother said Phillip’s 2 ½-year-old daughter was in earshot of the guns going off.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Every so often, a kid would use the N-word within earshot of a teacher, and the class would grind to a halt.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• Some of these statements are made within my son’s earshot.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2020
• Shiv, who was within earshot of many of the digs, fails to defend her husband and even joins in on mocking him.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 May 2023
• In the future, the researchers want to see whether the beats change when another male bird is within earshot.
  — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2017
• By the time the movie ended, the couple sitting next to me had climbed over three rows of seats, attempting to get out of earshot.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Michael was out of earshot, and didn't hear the commotion, hence his delay in finding her and calling the cops.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 10 May 2022
• My son played basketball or tossed footballs to his friends down the street—out of earshot but not out of eyesight.
  — Omar Tate, Bon Appétit, 3 Sep. 2020
• Read these out loud to whoever’s within earshot and laugh.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, The Cut, 21 June 2017
• While talking on a Zoom calls with reporters, Tibesar notes that Dunn is within earshot.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2020
• Maybe the chatter among farmers in the field, out of official earshot, is saltier.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• Once out of earshot, though, the doctor lamented that those discharged rarely remain away for long.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• Odds are, someone within earshot is hatching a plan to buy mansions and yachts as long as a city block.
  — Alex Horton, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back decades and centuries chimes into earshot once more.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
• All the while, when the actor was within earshot, people in the crowd called out to Chase, hoping to get the actor’s attention.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The murmur of bat wings fluttered above me, somewhere within earshot.
  — Pete McBride, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• The resulting phone call to Jolles to ask for his help put Bloom in the mood to announce the good news to every other friend within earshot.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• Case managers who sense a child is in danger will arrange to speak with the child outside of the home, perhaps in the yard and out of earshot from caregivers.
  — Suzanne Hirt, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024