Sentence examples for ceased hearing from inspiring English sources

One briefly ceased hearing those names and smelling those strange perfumes during that fleeting victorious period of victory-by-wildness.

Around the time of the groping-in-the-mums one ceased hearing the name Milly, ditto Carol Meninger, ditto Evelyn Whoever.

It's the period needed for a generation to cease hearing about the way things used to be done from great-grandparents, who had heard about such things from their own great-grandparents.So, where in this brave new world of post-literacy are we heading?

Probably the Areopagus ceased to hear crimes against the state, and such cases were transferred to the popular courts.

Thus the outside world has largely ceased to hear about the atrocities committed in the course of the Bosnian Serbs' holy war of conquest.

The first Minervan visitors to the earth were so surfeited with music, in cars, in streets, from steeples, that they ceased to hear.

There was a point when you ceased to hear strong regional accents, but they're back now, as a badge of belonging".

We don't cease to hear the voices from a work of fiction when we close the covers, they echo and reverberate, unbidden.

These are voices that have almost ceased to be heard in the US.

One resident reported that when all engine noise ceased he could hear a rushing sound until the scream from the engines returned.

Woolf noted in her diary — in an entry that Bechdel reproduced by hand (all the quotations in the book are drawn, not scanned or retyped from a printed page) — that once the novel was written her obsession ceased: "I no longer hear her voice; I do not see her".