How To Use Deaden In A Sentence

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The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine.
When you listen to the radio, the music deadens your rhythm and causes you to create uniform sentences.

It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong. Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope
Too many rules might deaden creativity.
The city deadens us to beauty.
He is certainly successful in this, creating a wonderfully intimate sound with no plush production to deaden the enjoyment.
It also deadens pain receptors at the injury site.
The wood panelling in the rooms deadened any noise from outside.
Close all the curtains and turn on the radio or television to deaden the noise.
At the same time it's a kind of deadening question for journalists to be asking of other journalists. Press Gazette Latest News
Thick walls deaden the noise from the street.
He stared at the big chimney of the powerhouse, as tall as the trunk of a poplar in a "deadening" at home, and covered with vines to the top, and he wondered what on earth that could be. The Heart of the Hills
What is this if not a sinister project of deadening the senses, so that destruction of life goes on as naturally as life itself?
• He finds driving a car "deadening," so he takes a bus to work from his home, reading or working on his laptop during the commute. Taking on Google by Learning From Ants
Wood is used to deaden the noise.
A critical taste might have objected that the plush curtains which shaded the windows were too heavy for summer; that the begilded wallpaper "swore" a little at its own dado and frieze, as well as deadened the effect of the pictures which hung against it; and that the drapery of lace and velvet which veiled the fireplace made a fire inconvenient and almost impossible, however cold the weather might be. A Little Country Girl
She then closed up the hut and covered the few coals with ashes so that the fire would not die out entirely, just as a man does with his inner feelings; he covers them with the ashes of his life, which he calls indifference, so that they may not be deadened by daily contact with his fellows. The Social Cancer
A local priest called to the scene of the crash said several communities had been "deadened" by the loss of life. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
We walked back again leisurely, though to my excited imagination the sound of the filing deadened every other sound. Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany
However, in this situation, like most others, we smokers have a slight advantage; our nasal nerves have long since been deadened with a film of tar.
God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. ' Mike Green: Innovation Crisis in Black America Pt. 4: 20th vs 21st century ideology
Instead of Herculean swigs of liquor, Nick uses his dwindling funds on cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon, trying to keep enough of a buzz going to deaden the pain of his predicament until he eventually falls asleep. Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Everything Must Go -- Will Ferrell Gets Serious
And as a result, you start to build up these thick walls that deaden you.
I strongly recommend the book for anyone who thinks manners are boring, deadening constraints on their individuality.
The Christian legalization of belief in Christ has deadened us to the free openness of his life.
But we should also expect that chemicals and treatments will be developed that deaden the future soldier's sensation of fear.
This is not because I am particularly involved or interested in my job, but because the deadening routine is not conducive to creativity or insight.
Though two girlfriends were at my side for emotional support, I needed something extra to help me relax (and deaden the pain) while I got my first tattoo a few weeks ago.
she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth
It's like the New Agers who all believe that they were princesses in a past life - none of these schmoes stops to think that, for most of them, life would have ended at 40, having spent most of their existence breathing in coal dust or risking limbs for enough wages to keep a roof over their head and to buy enough alcohol to deaden the pain until the next day's twelve-hour shift. Deadwood as the model of a Conservatives Utopia
And, again rightly or wrongly, I have also contended that the hand of purpose deadens and mummifies story. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
It is a narcotic that dulls the brain and deadens the nerves.
As Lester strongly points out, from simple lack of awareness we are deadening our senses by becoming tuned out.
The west can be described as jaded and deadened to stimuli in comparison to the h/s/c cultures with respect to sexual imagery and erotically charged situations. Pseudo-Polymath
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.
In the courtyard I saw a little cart, with iron brakes underneath it, such as fastidious people use to deaden the jolting of the road; but few men under a lord or baronet would be so particular. Lorna Doone
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
At the same time, having acknowledged my asexuality, men no longer inspire the kind of deadening fear they always have in me: so it is sad and not relieving when Sebastian merely taps me on the shoulder in the computer lab, says "hey," and rushes out. Evolver Diary Entry
In the bringing of unendurable emotional pain into language and human dialogue, a deadened sense of being is reborn. Robert D. Stolorow: Losing and Regaining My Sense of Being
It was at this time he suffered the devastating loss of his parents and he said heroin deadened his pain.
Apparently this quietness was achieved by using ‘sound-deadening materials, additional door seals and acoustic glass’.
I settle for a Camembert baguette, a bolet of chilled cider deadening my tongue to the sock aftershock.
Corridors are floored with black linoleum, which deadens noise and adds to the devout atmosphere, as if science were some kind of holy order.
The spreading infection resulted in necrosis, which is the deadening of tissues caused by septicemia with its resulting lack of blood flow to organs and tissues. Matthew Stein: When a Superbug Strikes Close to Home, How Can You Deal With it?
For the old and withered Nonna Rosa, he restores her youthful dewiness, awakening all the passion deadened by her long passionless marriage.
When you listen to the radio, the music deadens your rhythm and causes you to create uniform sentences.
I have made it a primary goal to integrate my work with my passionate interests, mostly in order to avoid the mid-life crisis of waking up to a soul-deadening modern job.
It is often a long and difficult job to get some of the Algae; with their tender connections unsevered from the hard rock, which must be chipped away with the chisel, and often with the blows of the hammer deadened by being struck under water. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
This flag will ward off any spells that want to deaden your imagination, stop you from ecstatically moving, and prevent the wind of spirit from blowing. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Wrought iron gates were placed here and there for elegance as well as function, and deadening ivy climbed part of the walls.
the deadening effect of some routine tasks
Sound Deadened doors/trunk happens ... that is why I converted before mine went out so I could sell them and recoupe all the $$ .... Lincoln vs Cadillac
Those advocating such innovations were motivated most powerfully by aesthetic considerations, in particular by the deadening effect on design of development control.
They are looking for anything that will deaden the never-ending inner ache. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct
The recent fall of snow, laid in a thick carpet, deadened any sound, adding to the tranquillity and pristine feel of the mountains.
They are visually poisonous, depressing, environmentally undermining, life-shortening, spiritually deadening, brain-dulling piles of crud.
He and his researchers have explored the archives and newspaper morgues with determination, so that the central events are told with an almost deadening thoroughness.
Did religion stand prophetically on the side of the poor demanding social justice (as some Christians believe Jesus did), or did religion forestall social reform, providing deadening consolation for economic injustice (as Karl Marx argued in speaking of religion as the “opiate of the masses”)? American Grace
The Sarah Connor Chronicles only served to deaden my love for the Terminator mythos further, as the casting choices were predominantly poor and the storylines meandered between plodding and preposterous -- but this isn't about my lament for a failed franchise, it's about a promising novel. Wish List Wednesday #27: The Alchemy of Stone
Prior to that, cushions were stuffed with flax, cotton or other padded materials and the result was fairly deadening.
Conformity almost always leads deadening of individual creativity and energy.
Music deadens the mind with its repetitive noises, movies brainwash us into predictable behavior, and travelling narrows our horizons into a world of tourist traps and sophistry.
The dentist deadened the nerve with novocaine.
What had been deadening this country, I think, was not so mysterious.
`Take these tablets and they will deaden any pain you may have. GOODBYE CURATE
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
The wood panelling in the rooms deadened any noise from outside.
Over the years, his humanity has been submerged through a deadening routine.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
The microphone had a windscreen and extra foam that deadened the noise of raindrops falling on the microphone.
Her back was turned and the roar of the wind and water would have deadened all but a foghorn at that distance. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
He drank huge quantities of wine in order to deaden the pain.
Then you start touring and it deadens your mind a bit.
Conformity almost always leads to a deadening of individual creativity and energy.
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
She was deadened to all sense of shame.
I asked my oncologist for a tube of cream which deadens the skin so you don't feel the puncture.
As with personal healing, social healing requires us to awaken from the cultural trance that deadens us to what is possible.
Your constant criticism has deadened their enthusiasm.
My thick clothing deadened the blow.
The power seemed to both sharpen and deaden her senses at the same time. TREASON KEEP
Blocked feelings lead to a "deadening" of our emotions Colleen Perry: Battling the Great Depression
The recent fall of snow, laid in a thick carpet, deadened any sound, adding to the tranquillity and pristine feel of the mountains.
He has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about the deadening effect on teaching of a society afraid to take risks.
Many of the leading organ builders now employ this thicker construction, and it is no uncommon thing to find Swell boxes measuring three inches in thickness and "deadened" with sawdust or shavings between the layers of wood of which they are formed. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments
Big trees were "deadened," or killed, by cutting a A School History of the United States
Thus a few minutes of the voyage were lost by backing the Elsinore's main-topsail and deadening her way while the service was read and O'Sullivan was slid overboard with the inevitable sack of coal at his feet. CHAPTER XXI
Tobacco has a deadening and stupefying effect upon the nerves.
Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness. DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
The dissenting crowd calls that "medievalism," but it is precisely what people need and want in this soul-deadening postmodern age. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
Your constant criticism has deadened their enthusiasm.
Your constant criticism has deadened their enthusiasm.
Even if you ignore the health-threatening combination of junk TV and junk food, it's obvious that television deadens children's capacity to develop.
The absence of a roof deadens the sound; there's none of the ominous rumble that's a trademark of enclosed pools.
Thus a few minutes of the voyage were lost by backing the Elsinore's main-topsail and deadening her way while the service was read and O'Sullivan was slid overboard with the inevitable sack of coal at his feet. CHAPTER XXI
They went out of the pavilion hand in hand, and on through the sunshine they strolled, swinging hands gaily, reacting exuberantly from the week of deadening toil. CHAPTER II
Prior to that, cushions were stuffed with flax, cotton or other padded materials and the result was fairly deadening.
Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings, deaden us to the moral issue.
He asks us to believe that one infant can change the world not as some sentimental pap which deadens us to the pain around us or as some convenient bandage to slap over profound brokenness.
A log cabin, and occasionally a stable and corn crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
I had walked on for some distance, without meeting any object of special interest, when, passing through a large "deadening, Autobiography of a female slave,
The spongy middle plate must, like the diploe of the skull, have served to deaden the vibrations of a blow dealt from the outside. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
I push my deadened feet up, forcing them to move, my hands stuck by my side as I turn the corner into the lounge.
The deadened echo of those words still sounded round Man now, as he stood cold and strengthless in Soho Square. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
If there is a criticism to be made, it is that the album is rather unrelenting in its pace, deadening the impact of the later songs.
In this culture, we are deadened to the effects of our lives on other people, other animals, on natural resources every day.
Between the water draining, the cool water pouring in, and her skin deadened from sensation, the pain started to become tolerable.
He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest.
Such closeness to truth could be deadeningly self-indulgent. Times, Sunday Times
Sadly, the supporting non-celebrity players deliver their lines in the same deadened monotone that passes for the industry standard in video game voice acting.
The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
The air in the little chamber surrounding the mirror is compressed at will, so as to act like a cushion, and 'deaden' the movements of the mirror. Heroes of the Telegraph
It seems reasonable, on the evidence herein presented, to class alcohol among the narcotic or "deadening" drugs, such as ether or chloroform. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
When my traumatized states could not find a hospitable relational home or context of human understanding, I became deadened, and my world became dulled. Robert D. Stolorow: Losing and Regaining My Sense of Being
Was this an expression of the "deadening" of the human spirit that takes place in Florida? "My hollow shell gives you the finger."
This resembles the deadening of the emotions paradoxically required for the exquisitely heightened sensate perception in the Marquis de Sade's novels.
They would wear canvass over their boots to deaden the sound of their feet on the rubble, fearful that any noise would alert the German machine gunners.
My toes are deadened with cold.
Daniel Irving, however, was the spitfire on the team, constantly hooting and yelling in the intense games just to keep the girls' morale up and stir some sort of reaction from their deadened features.
My thick clothing deadened the blow.
The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. The 20 Best Progressive Novels
Her eyes are pained and deadened, but somehow sad and regretting.
Jokes aside, this 100 minute thing made us realize that spreading the story over several months would kind of deaden the impact of the timeframe device, not to mention starting the war a month after #0. Superman Homepage - News
Another problem is that often within them lies what I call the deadening paradox. Slugger O'Toole
Before the nailing to the cross took place, a medicated cup of vinegar mixed with gall and myrrh (the sopor) was given, for the purpose of deadening the pangs of the sufferer. Easton's Bible Dictionary
At the end of May the online publication Edge published Lanier’s essay “Digital Maoism,” which predicted that collective intelligence would have the same deadening and anticreative effect as political collectivism in general. Artificial Intelligentsia
Now, by the hidden and admirable power of the loadstones, the steel plates were put into motion, and consequently the gates were slowly drawn; however, not always, but when the said loadstone on the outside was removed, after which the steel was freed from its power, the two bunches of scordium being at the same time put at some distance, because it deadens the magnes and robs it of its attractive virtue. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Additional lighting will be installed at each end of the court and special fencing will be built to deaden the sound.
The instructor insisted that ear muffs must be worn at all times when in the firing butts, to deaden the noise of the gunfire.
With the instinct of despair, she had buried herself deep in the hay, hiding her face in it to deaden those dreadful cries — pudency even stronger than grief. The Message
Wilson goes on to maintain that "the triumph of historicism is a pity, not least because the dominance of any orthodoxy tends to deaden the critical faculties," but she has clearly accepted the underlying demonization of formalism (it's "inhuman," to accept it "heresy") that has made the domination of historicism in academic criticism possible. The State of Criticism
It is a narcotic that dulls the brain and deadens the nerves.
Based on its placement, I would bet that it has deadened the nerve, so that you would indeed feel no pain.
Our consciences and sensitivities have been deadened by too much drinking, he says.
To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
The biggest complaint you hear these days from country folk is about the sheer, deadening weight of bureaucracy.
While the language of propaganda demonizes whole peoples and deadens us to the effects of policy decisions, poetry wakes us up.
It's a deadening of the nerve cells of the nerve endings in the lower extremities.
With new emotion and fresh distress Cecilia perceived this change; what he might have to say she could not conjecture, but all that foreran his communication convinced her it was nothing she could wish; and much as she had desired some explanation of his designs, when the long-expected moment seemed arriving, prognostications the most cruel of the event, repressed her impatience, and deadened her curiosity. Cecilia
deadened wine
Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
This atmosphere had the weird property of deadening and fossilising every thing that slid under its sway.
The residents also say the structures will "deaden" the atmosphere of the Lower Town neighborhood, stunt economic development in the area and violate the city's Northeast Area Plan - a set of goals, land-use recommendations and objectives for the area surrounding the proposed site. The Michigan Daily
It was a poison which produced a mild form of cerebritis that dulled but did not deaden the mental powers. The Crack of Doom
The very word `culture", so vague and threatening, had a deadening effect. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
His mind screamed at him not to, but his nerves were deadened, refusing to respond.
You don't let it drown you, or deaden you to the point that you're afraid to feel anything for fear of being hurt.
At least it's got caffeine, and it deadens my tongue and it's cold as ice.
When we treat fish and other animals like little more than a piece of sporting equipment it deadens all of us.
The cultivated land had been cleared by cutting away the underbrush and small trees, while the big ones had merely been "deadened," by girdling them near the ground. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
The hopaye had smeared it with bear grease mixed with jimson weed to deaden the pain and invoke healing. Fire The Sky
The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women.
I stuffed tissues into my ears to deaden the sounds of conflict from the other rooms.
She was bored with the deadening routine of her life.
After the drugs used to deaden the pain were leached from his system, Ian woke.
The sex - well, I'm still not getting any, but working sixteen hour days three times a week, and 8 hour days the other three, is deadening me sufficiently that I don't feel this so acutely.
the deadened pangs of hunger
Ma-ri's adventures are a little friskier: To please her callous younger lover, she sneaks off for a soul-deadening ménage à trois at a nearby hot-sheets hotel. "Your Republic Is Calling You," by Korean novelist Young-ha Kim
Twenty years of blockbusters have deadened audiences to the excitement of big armies and lavish effects.
Yes, it did deaden pain, but it also reduced inhibitions and made a person react with their instincts.
Every thirty seconds another sickening, deadening disappointment. IN LOVE AND WAR
deaden a sound
deaden a ship's headway
I carry them with me wherever I go and they help deaden the pain.
Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
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We can deaden the noise of the room with thick walls.
She was deadened to all sense of shame.
The power seemed to both sharpen and deaden her senses at the same time. TREASON KEEP
Tail-coated ushers move them gently along the brown carpet that deadens the footsteps.
My thick clothing deadened the blow.
It has something to do with arrogance and materialism and the deadening effect of pop culture on the collective brainpan.
He re-inserts an oft-skipped scene about settling financial matters, and he deadens scene after scene by turning the epigrammatic dialogue into a minefield.
`Take these tablets and they will deaden any pain you may have. GOODBYE CURATE
The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
The aggressive triviality of the campaign is having a deadening effect on the electorate.
Then it flew back into my mind with hideous, deadening force.
Stale routine can be deadening and it appears to me that you are following a routine here lately, with business and other daily affairs.
Cantus sighed in relief, relaxing as I deadened his nerves.
There could be no doubt that ether, properly applied, rendered the subject wholly unconscious, deadened the pain of operation, and represented little risk to recovery.
Both men understood that powerful aspects of their art were deadened by analysis.
The core unresolvable deadend difficulty in Capitalism is that competition breeds an enormous waste of human, natural, and industrial resources.
From behind them, only a little deadened by distance, the bear told them, at the top of its mechanical voice, that the capacity of its last operating nuclear subcell was now negligible. The Waste Lands
The tongue is a very delicate piece of equipment, but smoking deadens the taste.
The only way you could remain a communist, he said later, was by deadening your conscience, by inducing a moral narcosis.
Life is busier than ever for most couples and it's easy to fall into a routine that deadens your marriage.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
This will help deaden the noise of heavy footfalls and provides a much kinder surface to unhook fish on than hard boards.

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