English example sentences with "ear"

Learn how to use ear in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.

I don't think you can gain his ear.

You really have an ear for music.

How many people do you think have an ear for music?

If something does happen, I'll just play it by ear.

When it comes to music I have no ear for it.

Pus is coming out of my right ear.

He handled things wonderfully, playing it by ear the whole way. I have to say he did an excellent job.

Let's play it by ear.

The mayor of this city was blamed for turning a deaf ear to the people's requests.

My father turned a dead ear to my requests.

I have a discharge from my left ear.

I have a foreign object in my left ear.

It's a pity that I have no ear for music.

I have no ear for music.

I put the receiver to my ear.

I dealt him a blow on the ear.

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

I have an ear infection.

I have an itch in my ear.

I often have ear infections.

I hear a noise offensive to the ear.

My ear is ringing.

Traffic noise is very harsh to the ear.

The lad leaned over and shouted into Tom's ear.

Good advice grates on the ear.

I inclined my ear to him.

His ear trouble made hearing very difficult.

He played piano by ear.

He listened with his ear to the door.

He whispered something in her ear.

He has an ear for music.

He turned a deaf ear to my advice.

He turns a deaf ear to me.

He turned a deaf ear to me.

He turned a deaf ear to my words.

He whispered the answer in my ear.

He turned a deaf ear to my request.

He stuck his pencil behind his ear.

He took me aside in order to whisper in my ear.

He pulled his son by the ear.

He turned a deaf ear to their complaints.

He turned a deaf ear to their request.

He pressed his ear against the wall.

She always turns a deaf ear to my advice.

She turns a deaf ear to her father.

She whispered it in my ear.

She plays the piano by ear.

She tried again to fix the earring into her ear.

She whispered something into his ear.

They don't have an ear for music.

You'll have to play it by ear at the interview.

Mrs Tanaka's characteristic curly hair was sticking up behind her ear.

What Alice, waiting for a reply, was faced with was a sudden howl. It was a resounding noise, sharp as to burst her ear drums, loud as to reach unto the heavens.

My ear is itching.

One day, while I was playing with my cat, I finally bit his ear.

Jessie stood at Charles's side talking into his ear.

I don't have an ear for music.

I met an ear nose and throat doctor at a party on Sunday.

I wonder why we have ear lobes.

I wonder what ear lobes are for.

Once, when I went to my friend Kawai's house, he fired a pistol. He thought it was not loaded and pointed it at my mouth, but it was and the bullet grazed my ear before hitting the closet.

Don't be slopping about with him. You'd better give him a thick ear.

The ear canal sends sound waves to the eardrum.

The best ear training is tuning a piano or harpsichord.

I tried explaining the algebra homework to him, but it just went in one ear and out the other.

If we were supposed to talk more than listen, we would have been given two mouths and one ear.

The cat's ear swiveled in the direction of the noise.

He scared the hell out of me by popping a balloon right next to my ear.

But words are words; I never yet did hear. That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.

We'll play it by ear.

Last year I suffered from an inflammation of my middle ear.

I held the conch to my ear and heard the ocean inside.

Tom pressed his ear against the wall to see if he could hear what his parents were discussing in the next room.

Tom plays the harmonica by ear.

Tom often gets ear infections.

Tom is deaf in the left ear.

Tom is deaf in one ear.

Tom doesn't have an ear for music.

Tom can play the piano by ear quite well.

When he whispered something into her ear, she moved just as he said, as if she had been hypnotized.

Tom has a pierced ear.

President Lincoln was assassinated with a bullet to the head, right behind the left ear.

Tom is pretty good at playing piano by ear.

They heard with their natural ears but we hear, if we have an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

The hare is bleeding from its ear.

He hurt his ear while he was shaving himself.

She is completely deaf in her left ear.

The boy lost his ear in a street fight.

For him, it always goes in one ear and out the other.

Tom slid his tongue into Mary's ear.

He whispered sweet nothings into her ear.

It goes in one ear and out the other.

My ear was bleeding this morning.

What have you done to your ear?

"Yes!", he whispered in my ear with his charming voice.

Why are you touching your ear?

Let's play that by ear.

We are come to give ear to truth.

You're taking the wrong sow by the ear there, pal!

In a traditional Javanese burial, before the grave is filled in, someone close to the deceased will go down into it and shout into his ear the Muslim profession of faith. The message is "Don't forget. Especially not now."

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