hear from

phrasal verb

heard from; hearing from; hears from

: to receive a letter, a telephone call, etc., from (someone)

We heard from them yesterday.

I haven't heard from her lately.

I haven't heard anything from her lately.

Examples of hear from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The students heard from other Municipal workers — spreadsheet people, slide deck people, pencil sketch people. —Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025

Participants from the third group were ghosted, and never heard from Taylor again. —Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office has heard from scam victims who were prompted by someone impersonating an authority to transfer their money to protect it from various phony threats, according to Danny Wimmer, Nessel's press secretary. —Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025

Roy George Benn was last heard from in September 1967, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. —Gordon Ebanks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for hear from

• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom
• wherefrom
• abomasum
• bum
• chum
• come