How to Use earshot in a Sentence

earshot

noun
  • They were within earshot of each other.
  • Just, uh, maybe make sure no kids are in earshot of this one. Come back tomorrow for the answer and clues to Monday’s Heardle.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • Almost as good is to be within earshot of one.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Or talks about others at the very same party but out of earshot.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • Surely many of them had passed within earshot of Jones's set.
    — Ed Blair, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Sure, Mark is talking about me within earshot.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Out of earshot of the troops, the workers still spoke in Ukrainian.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • To be within earshot, your alarm must be reasonably close to the bed.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The two whispered in each other ears, well out of earshot of reporters.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • When your child is in earshot, say something wonderful about them.
    — Margery D. Rosen, Parents, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The microlight, at the edge of earshot, tracked toward the sea.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Our suite was tucked in the neighboring cove, within earshot of the buzzing beach clubs.
    — Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The Easter Bunny was out of earshot this time.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Camp within earshot of Havasu Falls and hoof back to your car at sunup.
    — Robert Earle Howells, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Nowadays, the insults don’t stop after a player is out of earshot of the crowd.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 28 July 2019
  • The murmur of bat wings fluttered above me, somewhere within earshot.
    — Pete McBride, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
  • But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back decades and centuries chimes into earshot once more.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Odds are, someone within earshot is hatching a plan to buy mansions and yachts as long as a city block.
    — Alex Horton, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
  • Once out of earshot, though, the doctor lamented that those discharged rarely remain away for long.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • And the clap-o-meter, at least within the A-lister’s earshot, was off the charts.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • My son played basketball or tossed footballs to his friends down the street—out of earshot but not out of eyesight.
    — Omar Tate, Bon Appétit, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Shiv, who was within earshot of many of the digs, fails to defend her husband and even joins in on mocking him.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 May 2023
  • His mother said Phillip’s 2 ½-year-old daughter was in earshot of the guns going off.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Maybe the chatter among farmers in the field, out of official earshot, is saltier.
    — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
  • With our waiter out of earshot, Piker drops his voice discreetly.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Moore and her husband did their best to find safe spaces to have adult conversations out of earshot of the kids.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025
  • And if parents should find themselves within earshot of the online classroom?
    — Holly Burns, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
  • In the future, the researchers want to see whether the beats change when another male bird is within earshot.
    — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2017
  • After the house tour wraps up, Fritz walks to the front yard and starts chatting out of earshot of the listing agent.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
  • My aunt was speaking loudly, and the man, tall with dust caked into his dreadlocks, was within earshot.
    — Yaa Gyasi, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020

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