Sample Sentences forhearsay (auto-selected)
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Hearsay evidence is generally not permitted in the United States. It generally is permitted in England for civil cases.hearsay = heard through another rather than directly
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But it comes to me now as distant hearsay, which is a gift.† (source)
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Your Honor, this is the rankest and purest sort of hearsay!† (source)
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Since I had neither a driver's license nor a girlfriend, I knew both those things only by hearsay.† (source)
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There's been a lot of hearsay admitted as evidence.† (source)
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Hearsay.† (source)
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Since my grandfather's business was shoes, this made no sense to me; but my grandfather died before I was born—his famous decision, to not unionize his shoeshop, is only hearsay to me.† (source)
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Hearsay.† (source)
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The women were so opposed to getting dunked in the river, even on hearsay, they all kept their children extra far from the church that day.† (source)
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As I understand it—and I could be wrong; I haven't had the pleasure to meet them yet, this is all hearsay, you understand—but what I have gleaned is that Mrs. Grote is once again with child, and she is looking for a mother's helper.† (source)
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It was all hearsay, you know.† (source)
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These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.† (source)
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I don't pretend to be intimately acquainted with the mode of living customary in those days at Wuthering Heights: I only speak from hearsay; for I saw little.† (source)
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Based on hearsay rather than personal experience?† (source)
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But he knew, more from hearsay than from personal experience, that such easy happiness could not last very long.† (source)
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It did not seem surprising, all these ghost-ship stories, even if they were only elusive hearsay, because we'd been told the night before that waste is the best-kept secret in the world.† (source)
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