How to Use out of earshot in a Sentence

out of earshot

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• Have them in private, which means out of earshot of the tenants.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Or talks about others at the very same party but out of earshot.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 June 2021
• The officer said something to Rising out of earshot, which drew a laugh.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• By the time the movie ended, the couple sitting next to me had climbed over three rows of seats, attempting to get out of earshot.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• Michael was out of earshot, and didn't hear the commotion, hence his delay in finding her and calling the cops.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 10 May 2022
• Roberts and Jackson then walked down the front steps of the courthouse, chatting out of earshot as photographers captured the scene.
  — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• Janie Little, 28, was out of earshot for that comment, poised at the bar with a friend as a bartender set two Midsummer Cosmos in front of them.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• Perhaps excuse himself and relieve the problem in the bathroom or elsewhere out of earshot?
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Try finding a flight attendant out of earshot of the passenger and explain the situation.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• These are the kinds of conversations, and ways of speaking, that cubicle-dwelling Black workers have typically held out of earshot of their white colleagues.
  — Ashanti M. Martin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• Later in the afternoon, the two sat side-by-side, carefully masked, in the front row of the Paris Peace Forum, chatting continuously, though out of earshot of any microphones.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
• DeeDee’s speech was interrupted by a counter protester with a megaphone, whose noisemaking was quickly shut down by a group that corralled him out of earshot.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
• At Glampful, your neighbors are out of earshot and the luxury safari-style tents are outfitted with real beds, nice linens, and hotel-quality toiletries.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
• Beyond enabling Lego bowling, focused sound waves could produce noise cancellation by collecting the sound and focusing it somewhere out of earshot.
  — Chris Holt, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024