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
  • 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 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
  • No one from the bar has ever seen or heard of the shooter, according to Ortega.
    — Sarah Moon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 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
  • Mona has gone pure method for a woman who no doubt has never heard of Lee Strasberg and thinks that Stanislavsky is a vegetable in the produce department.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
  • None of them had heard of the Village People, which still tours in its latest incarnation, with a Willis lookalike on lead vocals.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
  • An executive nobody had heard of became a target of online attacks for the offense of trying to turn around a fading chicken and biscuits restaurant.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Texas expats living in Kansas City may have heard of la Madeleine, a French café born in Dallas over 40 years ago.
    — Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
  • El Volcancito made a list of the 41 best places in the United States to eat Mexican food, but many have never heard of it.
    — Eva Flowe october 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2026

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