Sentence examples for avoid being overheard from inspiring English sources

"Neighbours are always watching," says a resident, playing loud music to avoid being overheard.

Fearing that his office was bugged, Dudley passed notes with his colleagues to avoid being overheard.

As we walked, wind whipping the coattails of passersby, Hall occasionally dropped his voice, to avoid being overheard.

"You should have never gotten that seat in the first place," the agent whispered to him to avoid being overheard by other passengers.

In Caracas's central Bolivar Square, Daniel Estevez, a 47-year-old government employee who previously supported Chávez, speaks quietly to avoid being overheard by passersby.

Close friends and collaborators, An and Shaplen spent hours closeted in Shaplen's room on the third floor of the Continental Palace Hotel, occasionally stepping out on the balcony to avoid being overheard.

At the September 2008 conference Miliband damaged himself with an indifferent speech, clumsy pictures of him holding a banana and then being overheard in a lift saying he had to avoid a Heseltine moment, an overt reference to his leadership ambitions.

And, unless you want the audience to laugh, it's probably best to avoid any sense that the characters uttering the aside are aware they're being overheard.

Americans have no fear of being overheard.

Perhaps with a fear of being overheard.

Where can I have a confidential conversation without being overheard?