earphones
Example Sentences
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The coroner added that "increasingly, more people wear earphones and are therefore less aware of their surroundings".
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
Within weeks of arriving, I loathed Madras, where rats stole the padding from my earphones, the humidity left me weak and men tailed my mother in traffic, desperate to buy our imported car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
“I was back in New York, and I was walking down the street and a guy looked up at me, pulled earphones out of his head and said, ‘Hey … you’re on my iPod!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025
Each participant wore earphones to hear both their taps and their partner's taps, and they had to anticipate their partner's movements.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
There was also a set of earphones and a vomit bag.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
