How to Use hear of in a Sentence

hear of

phrasal verb
  • Nobody alive has ever seen anything like that or heard of anything like that.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The release was the first USC had heard of Bush’s plans to file suit.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Dig in: Anyone around here who likes tamales has probably heard of Evie's Tamales in Mexicantown.
    Joe Guillen, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Customers and long-time fans of the restaurant chain were sad to hear of the closures.
    Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
  • No one there could imagine that no one here had heard of him.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The first time Wainwright heard of Bond was also in the early ’90s.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • The fact is that most people have never even heard of LTK.
    Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • It was recorded by an artist no one had ever heard of at the time.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Everybody’s heard of a Brush Hog or a Game Hog or a lizard.
    Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the fact that this is straight out of Project 2025, Trump has never heard of those guys!
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • But most of my listeners had never even heard of the show.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Murray said that every man in the street had either read it or heard of it.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • My big plan was to become a show choir girl who had never heard of cleats or free throws.
    Sam Reece, SELF, 12 Oct. 2023
  • His friends from high school have never heard of it, souring the moment.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • And that's why in our own military, many people have heard of it.
    ABC News, 11 July 2023
  • Sometimes a young player few fans have heard of will have a big couple of games.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Even many film buffs have never heard of Lillian St. Cyr.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Yet Clark got a huge deal with Nike in her first year, while most fans have barely heard of Wilson.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 14 June 2024
  • The pilot had either been in the area or heard of the crash on the radio and landed below it and hiked up to try and help, O’Brien said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
  • So saddened to hear of the passing of Texas legend Bill Little.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Nobody in Hollywood had heard of the thing, let alone flew their private jets to it.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Our audiences are mixed races and ages and backgrounds, and there are people who have heard of him and have not.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2024
  • That’s left it with an entire new generation of Gen Z daters who haven’t even heard of the app.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For many, it had never even been heard of — Wong included.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2024
  • Co-owner of the funeral home Parish Lowery was hurt to hear of the passing of Ivy and Wynter.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2024
  • Fans will also be thrilled to hear of a new two-tone ombré studded cold cup in yellow and teal.
    Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2023
  • The challenge is to get to Latino readers who have never heard of it, Martínez Ahrens noted.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Then Gorman asked if Kawano had ever heard of the Navajo code talkers.
    David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • It's never heard of the Queen's Gambit or studied the great grandmasters.
    New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2024

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