Example Sentences

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She and Nin had been overhearing bits of news about them for a couple of years now.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

He went out into the passage, and there met one of his comrades, who had been overhearing his conversation.

From Resurrection by Maude, Louise Shanks

The shot fell from the professor's palm; his spectacles dropped on his nose, and the school tumultuously broke up, the pupils scrambling up the ladders with the sailors, who had been overhearing the lecture.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman