Dictionary Entry
(stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
In a Sentence
“I was deaf, and now I can hear.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “hear”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →‘Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.’
Read full poem →To see the morning shine,
When he will hear the stroke of eight
And not the stroke of nine;
Read full poem →What the,--! My wife! It be my wife!
Wife! Don’t ’e hear me? It be I, come back,
Jaspar come back--Jaspar come home again----
Read full poem →. Westward on the high-hilled plains .
. Far I hear the bugle blow
. You smile upon your friend to-day
Read full poem →A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,
One that many loved in vain,
Read full poem →Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty highways crying
Read full poem →MARY. It’s no good, he don’t hear, he’s gone to sleep.
Read full poem →Up, lad, up, ’tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty highways crying
Read full poem →"Far I hear the bugle blow
To call me where I would not go,