Sentence examples for hear tell from inspiring English sources

"hear tell" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to hear something (usually a rumor) and can usually be used in the same way as saying "I heard". Example: "I hear tell that the exam has been postponed."

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hear tell

verb

To hear it said that.

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So will the folks down at the lumberyard, who I hear tell have advanced you considerable supplies on credit".

To make the connection to Jesus was not so far-fetched because he certainly, as I hear tell, didn't deserve to die in such a gruesome way.

She looked down and whispered what she wants the world to hear: "Tell how we were taken from our houses without knowing," she asked.

So it's surprising that so few pop-group movies ended up being made, because to hear tell, almost every band got an offer.

"I hear tell," the Vice-President of the United States said a few days ago in Davenport, Iowa, fertilizing an elderly audience, "there are gonna be some caucuses around here in a couple of weeks".

Informed that my characters are not peerless in their virtue or that they sometimes make horrendous decisions, I would say (if only the complainant could hear), "Tell me something I don't know".

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The person you really don't want to hear telling you to stop, though, is one of the guards.

The first voice we hear tells us: "I could leave it all alone.

I heard tell Buck visited a different lady every night.

I heard tell of legendary nights but never lived one.

"I heard tell once," he begins, and the roomful of listeners is hushed in expectation.

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