| As we looked at the paintings, we overheard another gallery visitor saying to her friend that the works were very restful. |
| We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said. |
| Steve, who lives in Fleet, informed an air hostess of what had been said but other passengers had already overheard the conversation. |
| I was savouring a cocktail in a busy bar last night when I overheard a group of men saying some jolly unpleasant things about ladyboys. |
| In one of Chaucer's earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess, a knight is overheard in the forest lamenting the death of his lady. |
| She held out the ledger and spoke in a voice deliberately pitched too low to be overheard. |
