give a hearing

Example Sentences

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She also called on Congress to give a hearing to Epstein’s victims.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Council’s public safety chair said Tuesday that she would give a hearing to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s amended version of the massive criminal code rewrite.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2023

For Conductor Otto Klemperer it was a matter of duty to give a hearing to native talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just as the governor had opened his court to give a hearing to all parties, it pleased God, for our sins, and to our great misfortune, that he was suddenly taken ill of a fever.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

After dwelling upon this injustice he would add, with peculiar gravity, that really in certain moods one all but inclined to give a hearing to the arguments of socialistic agitators.

From The Town Traveller by Gissing, George