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Example sentences for "heard nothing"

  • Christophe did not hear it: he heard nothing.

  • He saw nothing, he heard nothing, he thought of nothing else.

  • His temples throbbed; he heard nothing; he knew not what she was playing; and, to break the silence, he made a few random remarks in a choking voice.

  • But I heard nothing--not a thing but the mare's bellow and my own heart.

  • And I heard nothing more, though my ears were on the strain.

  • It ceased, and I heard nothing more, and resolved to smoke, to soothe my mind.

  • For a long time I heard nothing more of this man.

  • We heard nothing more, except the barking of a dog in the distance.

  • This was no doubt the result of a conference of the most secret kind, for I heard nothing of it from Gondar.

  • During three long hours we heard nothing; the stillness was unbroken.

  • She kissed me affectionately, and thanks to this incident I heard nothing about my having come home so late.

  • Thus I heard nothing as to how you liked things done.

  • The street noises had gradually died away, and save the distant sound of a ballad-singer, whose mournful cadence fell sadly on the ear, I heard nothing.

  • And of De Beauvais I heard nothing; and yet, on one account, I could have wished much to learn where he was.

  • But he had seen nothing, heard nothing, and his own actions were so much like the presence he half expected to find, that he was ashamed of them, and laughed at his fears.

  • He had often felt that he was watched, though he had seen nothing, heard nothing, to warrant this belief.

  • For three months we heard nothing; then a rumour drifted across to us that the elder of the two had died in a Temple house.

  • For three months we heard nothing; then unexpectedly a letter came.

  • This done she disappeared again, refusing speech with anyone, and for months we heard nothing of her.

  • He fancied for a moment that he had been shot, and listened for the report; but he heard nothing.

  • For the first three days I heard him walking about as usual, but, on the fourth I heard nothing.

  • At times he would not tell under any circumstances why he was crying; at times he would make believe that he was absent minded, that he heard nothing, that he was occupied with his own affairs, but he heard and understood.

  • Then they spoke of something, but he understood nothing; he heard nothing; he suddenly forgot the meaning of words.

  • But He heard nothing; he slept on peacefully and soundly.

  • Up to the Sunday, we heard nothing of this affair; but on that day it happened, I hardly know how, that I got to mass rather later than usual.

  • Though Count Bestoujeff had been arrested in the very palace of which we occupied a wing, and not very far from our apartments, we heard nothing of it that evening, so careful were they to keep from us all that was going on.

  • For a long time I heard nothing; at last he gave me to understand that the Empress might speak to me on the subject.

  • Pierre, however, heard nothing; he was simply struck by the immensity of the edifice, as with raised eyes he slowly walked along.

  • The congregation, accustomed, heard nothing peculiar; he was the necessary gentry with the necessary finger in the pie.

  • Of Zachary I heard nothing, but she told me of old Pearse's death.

  • He heard nothing afterwards of the affair.

  • He had, of course, heard nothing of the strained relations between him and lady Arctura; he might otherwise have been a little more anxious.

  • The day passed, and he heard nothing more.

  • He listened to hear if anything was stirring within; he heard nothing.

  • He heard nothing--nothing but the beating of his violently-agitated heart.

  • As I was all the while living constantly at Moscow, I heard nothing of my young kinsman.

  • I did what he asked, and for two years I heard nothing more of him.

  • VI Some time passed again, and I heard nothing of Misha.

  • I heard nothing, but seemed to be wide awake in an instant, as though some one had touched me.

  • I heard nothing whatever, though the noises, as they described them, would have been enough to wake any one much farther away than where I slept, for the noises they heard were made immediately over my room.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heard nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    daily food; glanced down; heard afterwards; heard anything; heard footsteps; heard from; heard himself; heard mass; heard nothing; heard some; heard someone; heard something; heard that; heard the; heard their; heard this; heard voices; moral life; name like; other nations; profound slumber; secular priests; started forward; thin film; thine enemy; when thus