EAR in a Sentence

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291 example sentences for EAR, such as:

1. Music is the eye of the ear.
2. You really have an ear for pop music.
3. Mrs. Elsing cocked her ear toward the hall.
4. A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
5. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

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 Meanings and Examples of EAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ear
 n.  the organ of hearing
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  She put her lips close against his ear to say: "Right into the big elm."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Then he hastily set about smoothing his hair and settling his ruffled shirt and his cravat which had slipped awry behind one ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  But to her pleadings, Scarlett turned a sullen face and a deaf ear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  Mrs. Elsing cocked her ear toward the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
16  I had an ear, nose and throat specialist examine my sinuses.
17  Music is the eye of the ear.
18  The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
19  She leaned forward and whispered something in my ear.
20  You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
21  A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
22  She rounded her husband in the ear for a long while.
23  A young kid came asking for money but I sent him away with a flea in his ear.
24  You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
25  You really have an ear for pop music.
26  She leaned over and whispered something in his ear.
27  I've had no time to prepare for this meeting, so I'll have to play it by ear.
28  Even those of us with a tin ear can recognize a waltz.
29  He had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
30  He turned a deaf ear to all requests for help.