Sentence examples for would be overheard from inspiring English sources

Naturally, some innocent Americans would be overheard, he conceded.

He endeavored to hush me, as if he feared my voice would be overheard.

He endeavoured to hush me, as if he feared my voice would be overheard.

Following his relative success in the film Countryman, he would be overheard declaring himself on the phone as "Countryman, fisherman and movie star".

Mr. Tarloff's belief is so strong that he is refusing to speak with his lawyer, fearing that the conversation would be overheard.

It is assumed that if Mr. bin Laden were dead, the remnants of his network, Al Qaeda, would be overheard discussing his demise in phone calls or radio transmissions.

My usual techniques for making friends, honed over scores of globe-trotting trips, weren't working: I'd stop in a pub for lunch and humbly, quietly, off-handedly explain my mission ("I'm driving around Ireland with no map, trying to get lost"), hoping the bartender would respond, or that I'd be overheard by someone who'd know just where I needed to go and might even want to accompany me.

Mr. Feinberg looked up at the man, a little startled to realize he'd been overheard.

The book begins with Gillian Duffy; in the 2010 election, when Gordon Brown discovered he'd been overheard calling her bigoted, he was on your Radio 2 show, wasn't he?

Press box colleagues would recall that there was seldom a day that he would not be overheard in telephone contact with the shop, discussing how a looming liability might be laid off.

Forlini's was the type of place where conversations would not be overheard, which is probably why the gangsters chose it.