Sentence examples for overheard down from inspiring English sources

By John F. Callahan and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, September 4 , 1943P. 11 Fragment of conversation overheard down at the Erie ferry slip: "Know what I like about the Lexington Avenue express no Thirty-fourth Street".

Across the room are 12 hand-written examples of obscene racial slurs, which Mr. Ovelman says he overheard and copied down verbatim.

When she was at Melbourne University, working part time as a waitress at the Old Homestead Inn to pay her way, Blanchett would jot down overheard conversations on her pad; those "found moments" went into a play that she wrote with another student, about life in the city and how people's conversations are often "a way of avoiding rather than communicating".

Through sustained shots of streets and skies, and through the layering of anonymous voices real dialogue from New Yorkers that Lonergan overheard and wrote down in notebooks—it seeks to capture the city in the first years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

(As a young playwright honing his craft, he later explained, he would set himself exercises like writing down the overheard speech of five people talking at once).

For generations, G-men have been studiously scribbling down nicknames overheard on wiretap recordings for tough guys with tough nicknames like — literally — Thomas (Tough Tommy Contaldoo, Ettore (Killer) Coco and Anthony Tony Miserablee) Vellucci.

Keep a notebook for writing down observations, overheard conversations, and sudden ideas encountered in your daily life.

I took pictures, filmed streets, wrote down overheard conversations.

Sometimes he takes a notebook to the beach and jots down overheard dialogue.

They might even want to copy down something they overheard, saw in an advertisement, heard in a song or even spray-painted on a building.

When I was there last week, a documentary filmmaker was looking for patrons who would be willing to grant her a brief interview about their dealings with the store (I overheard one patron turn her down, saying that he was planning to write about it himself).