EAR in a Sentence
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291 example sentences for EAR, such as:
1. His ear for music was certain.
2. The sound smites upon the ear.
3. The great fish ear up the small.
4. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
5. Mrs. Elsing cocked her ear toward the hall.
2. The sound smites upon the ear.
3. The great fish ear up the small.
4. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
5. Mrs. Elsing cocked her ear toward the hall.
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Meanings and Examples of EAR
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ear
n. attention to what is said
n. the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Ethan, glaring at his face in the glass, threw his head back to draw the razor from ear to chin.
2 Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder.
3 If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
4 She put her lips close against his ear to say: "Right into the big elm."
5 He got his face down close to hers, with his ear to her mouth, and in the darkness he saw her eyes open and heard her say his name.
6 Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
7 With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
8 But to her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
9 His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
10 His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
11 Her heart racing, she leaned from the window, her ear cocked to the far-off roaring, trying to discover from which direction it came.
12 Every now and then, after he's sat still with his ear cocked listening for her, he jumps up suddenly and stumps out of the house and down to the burying ground.
13 And when Scarlett took the trouble to listen to them at all, most of what they said went in one ear and out the other.
14 Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.
15 Mrs. Elsing cocked her ear toward the hall.
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1 The agent had no suitable properties on his books but promised to keep an ear to the ground for us.
2 Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
3 What he says is probably true because he has the ear of the Queen.
4 The great fish ear up the small.
5 The sound smites upon the ear.
6 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
7 Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
8 Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
9 The dog was scratching at an itch behind its left ear.
10 Blood from his torn ear was soaking his collar.
11 One of the new rabbits is a freak; it was born with only one ear.
12 The boy grinned from ear to ear when his mother gave him the apple.
13 Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear.
14 His ear for music was certain.
15 We'll only get our proposal considered if we can gain the ear of the managing director.