How to Use hear of in a Sentence

hear of

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  • Even bands who never heard of this guy ended up copping his tricks.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Some fans have already been excited to hear of the new flavors.
    — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • There’s a whole generation of people who haven’t seen the movie or even heard of it.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Paul, as a father of six, was devastated to hear of their anguish.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026
  • The performers signed contracts one year earlier when few had heard of them.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
  • When people hear of their upstairs-downstairs arrangement, no one is shocked.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 14 Oct. 2026
  • When one engine names a brand the others have never heard of, that brand usually gets dropped on the next refresh.
    — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Ten years ago, few people in the United Kingdom had even heard of padel, let alone taken it up.
    — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026
  • Still, its champions find Coloradans who have never heard of the landmark.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2026
  • No one from the bar has ever seen or heard of the shooter, according to Ortega.
    — Sarah Moon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Then someone reminded me that there’s a whole generation of people who haven’t seen the movie or even heard of it.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Everybody in the whole world is a unique, one-of-a-kind creation that has never been heard of since or will ever be in the future.
    — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • Everyone has heard of the ‘crazy cat lady,’ but cat daddies have their own cultural stereotypes.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • These are the spots where the taverna menus are hand-written, or don’t exist at all, and no one has heard of an espresso martini.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 17 July 2026
  • Most people have never heard of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Before his abduction, Anyanwu had heard of people being kidnapped, but had not thought much about it.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • What starts as a simple visit to try a cuisine most people have never heard of quickly turns into something much bigger.
    — Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • There is a science for how to better use tests, diagnostic stewardship, but most doctors have never heard of it.
    — Daniel Morgan, STAT, 6 July 2026
  • Police heard of a possible third victim but could not locate the third body as of Saturday morning.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In her 25 years on the job, this was the first time Stolarz had heard of people using the riverfront for mini concerts.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • That a reporter or two heard of this normal process led to the erroneous inference that a change of leadership is imminent.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The elder Washington asked if John David had heard of Kirk Douglas.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
  • Contracts and e-signatures floating in a cloud, which is to say a server farm in Virginia that has never heard of Erewhon.
    — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And perhaps diehards of the EA Sports video game FIFA might’ve heard of him too.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Before Widow’s Bay, Kate O’Flynn had never heard of a final girl.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • Some of the best Difference Makers may be people few Marylanders have ever heard of.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Of the millions of men and women who have made their mark here, few were as prolific and artful as Edgar Miller, even though most of you have never heard of him.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • But despite its many charms, recipes for ermine frosting nearly disappeared after cream cheese frosting surged onto the scene, so many bakers have never heard of it.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 27 July 2025
  • Female guards are rarely heard of, much less depicted in movies, making The Housewife a unique entry into the canon of films made on this subject.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Linus Torvalds built the operating system that runs most of the internet and most people outside the tech world have never heard of him.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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