Sentence examples for to overhear from inspiring English sources

It was impossible not to overhear.

It is uniquely possible to overhear conversations on the bus.

They talked among themselves at volumes impossible to overhear.

(Via headsets, the audience gets to overhear the stagehands' chatter).

I don't know what I expected to overhear.

The reader considers himself lucky merely to overhear Thomas.

In the chaos on the downtown streets on Saturday, it was easy to overhear similar arguments.

Truths and half-truths drifted like shadows into conversations he was not intended to overhear.

(If the servants happen to overhear, there are questions of propriety as well).

"It's very difficult to overhear a conversation if one is speaking loudly".

Then he happened to overhear a conversation in a hallway between two students.