Earshot

Definition of earshot:

part of speech: noun

Hearing- distance.

Usage examples for earshot:

• " They're chewin' about it now in the saloon," said the skipper, glancing over his shoulder to make sure there was no one within earshot "The Wheel O' Fortune", Louis Tracy.

• John removed himself abruptly out of earshot "Poor Relations", Compton Mackenzie.

• The snow- fed streams ran everywhere, and since leaving Srinagar she could not remember a single occasion on which they had been out of earshot of their perpetual music. "The Lamp in the Desert", Ethel M. Dell.

• He did not stir until she had drifted out of earshot had become again a nebulous silver cloud drifting into the dusk, had merged with that dusk. "Angel Island", Inez Haynes Gillmore.