How to Use hear of in a Sentence
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Ten years ago, few people in the United Kingdom had even heard of padel, let alone taken it up.
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Mark Rice-Oxley,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 June 2026
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What starts as a simple visit to try a cuisine most people have never heard of quickly turns into something much bigger.
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Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
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And perhaps diehards of the EA Sports video game FIFA might’ve heard of him too.
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Marcus Thompson Ii,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
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Before Widow’s Bay, Kate O’Flynn had never heard of a final girl.
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Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
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None of them had heard of the Village People, which still tours in its latest incarnation, with a Willis lookalike on lead vocals.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 July 2026
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That makes Smith one of the most important figures in South Florida sports that not many people have necessarily heard of.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2026
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Olivia stops at an exhibit depicting two Minions, James and Henry (all the Minions are voiced by Coffin), and is perplexed when no one present appears to have heard of them, at least by name.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
29 June 2026
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In 1868, at the age of 29, John Muir arrived in San Francisco via steamship with definitive plans to wander and revel in the natural wonders of California—he’d heard of the Golden State’s geographic riches and wanted to see them for himself.
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Chelsee Lowe,
Travel + Leisure,
1 July 2026
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