Example Sentences

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What he didn’t realize was that millions of people around the world had been hearing all about him.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

Pulte, President Trump’s outspoken head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, had been hearing from lenders and others about the rising costs of credit-scoring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

They had been hearing rumours about TN boats for some time.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

For years I had been hearing about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-get-to Eden with middle-of-nowhere tranquillity that sits 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

All her life, Dicey had been hearing about Momma’s Aunt Cilla and her big house in Bridgeport that Momma had never seen, and her rich husband who died.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt