Sentence examples for vaguely heard from inspiring English sources

The phrase "vaguely heard" is correct and usable in written English
You'd typically use it to describe a sound that you perceived as distant or unclear. For example, "I vaguely heard someone calling my name from down the hall."

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Yes, I think I'd vaguely heard.

Middlemarch I had vaguely heard of.

"He'd only vaguely heard of bin Laden," Sonn said.

I started experimenting with modes of meditation I'd vaguely heard about while growing up.

Mr Lindon had vaguely heard of Beckett, an Irishman who for some reason wrote in French, as being "interesting".

Like most people, I'd only vaguely heard of Yoshida until I wrote his obituary in The Independent last February.

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So while I'm at the stage of a new writing project where I am vaguely hearing, rather deafly, the demands of a new train of thought, the drawing goes on every day.

One vaguely hears rumours about astronomically expensive booze and a high incidence of suicide but, even if those things are true, who's to say they don't also reflect a certain kind of cultural wisdom?

I vaguely hear our coach call us to do the last set.

Outside the hallway, I could vaguely hear the resident noting on the intern's simulations while I sat bewildered and repulsed in the treatment room.

George W.'s description of himself, in the 2000 campaign, as a "compassionate conservative" was brilliantly vague — liberals heard it as "I'm not all that conservative," and conservatives heard it as "I'm deeply religious".

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