Sentence examples for hear to reply from inspiring English sources

People don't listen to understand, they hear to reply.

"Anna Deveare Smith?" the woman was heard to reply.

"All right, I'm going," Captain Schettino is heard to reply.

"Jazz?" Ms. Aston, who is married to one of the city's more prominent and well-publicized cosmetic surgeons, was heard to reply.

When asked if he had taken steroids he was heard to reply, "I can't tell you that I haven't, but you'll never prove that I have".

The doctor repeats what she said to me, and from a long distance I manage to hear her, and to reply, "Thank you.

Andy Farrell bumped into two teenagers in Lions shirts and was surprised to hear them reply in an Australian accent when he asked them whether they had enjoyed the game.

STEVE COLL: I'd love to hear Obama reply to this by saying, "Governor, you've been repeating these same meaningless five points for two months — is that really what you think the people want in their next President?" Or a more elegant version of that — just calling him out on the absurdity of repeating his talking points again and again….

"War is the last thing I wanted to hear," she replied.

"If that's what you want to hear," Aguigui replied coolly.

Giving the answer I thought she wanted to hear, I replied that it was because I am gay – an unnecessary justification considering that more than half of those diagnosed as being HIV positive in the UK last year were straight.