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How to use the word HEARD in a Sentence?

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You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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3 months ago

Ready to make your voice heard? Go and vote.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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10 months ago

One of the biggest reasons that people don’t vote is because they don’t see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
10 months ago

The R.S.F. guy cocked his gun, when I heard that sound, I thought he was dead.

Danielle Boyles

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

I can’t even express how disappointing it was that it was another country’s military and embassy who got us out and we were just lucky enough to be a part of that group, to have heard about it and gotten there in time, i mean if we hadn’t, who knows? It bothers me because they say, ‘Oh it’s too dangerous, we can’t get there,’ but all these other countries are getting there and getting their people out? So I don’t understand that.

Deana Welker

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I haven’t heard anybody say, ‘I’m not interested,’ it’s just like it was four years ago…The more Donald Trump opens his mouth about something, it just reminds people that we can’t go back to 5 years, 6 years of that.

Alan Kessler

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We’ve heard a lot today about the mental trauma and the negative harmful effects on a person’s psychological well-being after they have an abortion, supposedly, and I’m curious why that’s not relevant for me as well.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Today—when the Speaker continued to not recognize me as a duly elected official—my constituents & community protested on behalf of their democratic right to be heard. I raised my mic and stood in solidarity with them. I am devoted to those who rise in defense of democracy.

Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

From what I heard, removing Ukraine from the list of things that they’re going to discuss was a demand from the Chinese government, there’s still some interest from the Brazilian part to raise the issue and to discuss ideas, and they hope to release a joint statement where they mention the Ukrainian conflict, calls for a peaceful solution and mediated diplomatically, but it’s not officially on the program and to a large extent that was expectable.

Igor Patrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She’s probably the greatest athlete ever to come out of LSU sports. Darron Cummings/AP Angel Reese heard it here first.

Tom Pennington/Getty Images O’Neal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I saw people running and then some others got out (of) their car and began to run as well, then I heard police yelling and telling people there was a shooter at the bank and to back away.

Hagan Curd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We fundamentally object to any effort to expel members for making their voices heard to end gun violence.

Sam McKenzie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I haven’t heard a word since November 2022.

Robert Costello

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But then they said, ‘When we heard a few more after that we all knew because we had heard it before.

Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our converted planes can also carry a nuclear warhead. You heard from the president of Russia about joint plans to create the appropriate infrastructure on the territory of Belarus. I just want to clarify: The entire infrastructure has been created and is ready.

Alexander Lukashenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even if I did n’t study every day, I constantly heard about chess, I constantly saw my parents analyzing their chess games, talking about chess.

Anna Cramling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My worry with this bill is that it will take away privacy from teenagers, and a lot of kids don’t have good relationships with their parents or don’t have a reliable guardian that would be needed to get access to social media, i think about my LGBTQ friends; some who have had a hard time with their parents because of their sexuality or identity, and they could be losing an important place where they can be themselves, and be seen and heard.

Lucy Ivey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He had cuts to his face and bruises. Employees heard the disturbance and the perpetrators fled.

Lance Lazzaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about a community that no one had ever heard of before, becoming ground zero and a small town being destroyed overnight.

Misti Allison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I heard that it was starting to rain and I began to shiver.

Valeria Ponomarova and Andrii Bohomaz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At that time, it was kind of far-fetched. We heard it, but we didn’t act on it, i’m not going to say it was hard to believe, but it just didn’t apply to us at the time because my sister was at home with us.

Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Powell has been very clear he’s going to fight inflation, and he’s warned the markets again and again, about thinking things are over, you’d have to kind of be half asleep to not have heard that message.

Public Policy professor Dave Schabes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We set out more than six years ago to build a community of hikers and adventurers of all shapes, sizes, genders and abilities after seeing a need to have more diversity represented in the outdoor community, now, we’re able to give a voice and provide product to those not always heard or represented in the outdoor community.

Jenny Bruso

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You may have heard rumors that the cameras were up over the weekend. Yes, the cameras were up, the cameras have been up on everyone getting reactions and filming, so you will see this play out in a sense this season of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ before the reunion.

Andy Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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