How do you use the word "ear" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "ear": I don't think you can gain his ear. You really have an ear for music.

Ear Meaning

/ˈɪə̯/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.

nounThe external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.

Sentence Examples

I don't think you can gain his ear.

You really have an ear for music.

He admired the delicate curve of her ear.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor examined my left ____ because it felt clogged and painful.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I don't think you can gain his ____.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Germanic *ausô Proto-West Germanic *auʀā Old English ēare Middle English ere English ear From Middle English ere, eare, from Old English ēare (“ear”), from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô (“ear”) (compare Scots ere, er, eir, West Frisian ear, Dutch oor, German Ohr, Swedish öra, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål øre, Norwegian Nynorsk øyra), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (compare Old Irish áu, Latin auris, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Russian у́хо (úxo), Albanian vesh, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), and Old Armenian ունկն (unkn).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear." — 1976, Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, The Enforcer:

"songs[…]not all ungrateful to thine ear" — 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

"Dionysius[…]would give no ear to his suit." — 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." — 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

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