Sentence examples for ear caught from inspiring English sources

And my ear caught it all those years ago.

No sooner had my ear caught the hum of Diptera around me, the cry of a snipe overhead, the gulping sounds of the morass under my foot than I knew I would find here quite special arctic butterflies, the pictures of which I had worshipped for several seasons.

Whenever his writing threatens to descend into the period's standard responses of disdain or whimsy, his ear catches the unique accent of an ordinary voice and elevates it to the dignity of print.

Recently, after two hours of early-morning birding, I reluctantly headed from the park when my ears caught the sound of a cellphone ringing.

Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed's office have let drop that the leader was reportedly "furious" with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the 'hush now' approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.

Her flawless ear catches the bravura and spontaneous eloquence of the Count Basie big-band style she heard as a teenager in New York in the 1950s.

I remember that the gun was heavy like a brick, and when I pulled the trigger it felt as if my right hand and ear had caught on fire.

I have never been particularly drawn to boxing, but there was something about the younger Mike Tyson — his way of seeming larger than the sport itself, of playing out impulses that seemed all the more authentic for being so unmediated, whether it was his desperate bid for Robin Givens's heart or his desperate biting of Evander Holyfield's ear — that caught my attention.

When an ear gets caught and ripped, as the dog pulls away he almost certainly tears the edge of the pinna and lacerates the marginal ear vein.

Her class, her tribe, hears what no healthy ear can catch and sees what no eye chart can quantify.

"It was," he said, damning it with praise so faint I had to cup my ear to catch it, "almost tuneful".