1.   A faint sound from below caught her ear.

2.   Another sound caught her ears, though, and she looked up to see that help was at hand.

3.   Branford Marsalis was at a jazz festival in France three years ago when something caught his ear.

4.   A man from Asheville caught his ear.

5.   But there, as director of the glee club, he caught the ear of the popular radio band leader Fred Waring.

6.   He said he dismissed the comment, but similar epithets caught the ear of a maid, Joan Balluff.

7.   He was part-time manager of a gospel group, the Four Star Quartet, when his announcement for the group caught the ears of WROX.

8.   His confident talk caught the ear of a venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital, who sent his partners to check out the company.

9.   His hold on blacks, too, was loosening, as radical leaders caught the ears of the younger generation.

10.   I was mulling this over when a Jiffy Lube ad on the radio caught my ear.