Sentence examples for hear outside from inspiring English sources

Upon recognizing the keyword or phrase, the device would temporarily stop canceling noise so that the headphone wearer could hear outside sounds.

The story ends with Betty cutting her birthday cake, while all the guests hope that the new arrival they hear outside is Betty's husband, John returning to his wife.

The family cannot hear outside voices, it's claimed, through the loveless vacuum surrounding them and "their ready-made opinions switch on like the security-lights protecting their property and illuminate the same blank space".

"Derailing Illusions That Kill" says that scientists say crossing accidents can be laid to quirks of human perception, and to such things as people having their sound systems turned up so that they can't hear outside sounds (the same thing that bedevils drivers of emergency vehicles).

Now, when you try to sleep, all you can hear outside is movement: closer, ever closer, louder, at first just one scurrying run – "a rabbit", you say to yourself, "a large fast dog" – and now it sounds like a storm is coming, a thousand booted feet opening and closing every door in the house.

The animal will hear outside sounds and will go into that room seeking the outside.

As he speaks gunfire can be heard outside, but Egal does not miss a beat.

The sirens, it turns out, are meant to be heard outside, not inside.

Occasionally, a plane could be heard outside: "the sonic wallow of a plane distancing in slow gusts above".

The Fisk Jubilee Singers frequently sang spirituals that were rarely if ever heard outside churches or the homes of blacks.

That whistling sound you heard outside is his draft stock in a freefall.