How To Use Deaf In A Sentence

And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
She turned a deaf ear to our warnings and got lost.
I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
It sounded like a dull roar at first, but now it was nearly deafening.

The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce. Times, Sunday Times
One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears.
Recent research on deaf children has produced some interesting findings about their speech.
But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
These ruminations are chased from my mind like dustballs when the band takes the stage to the deafening approval of their awaiting minions.
Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
Afterwards, Terry tells me he ended up putting in earplugs in between songs, the applause and yelling was deafening him.
Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
A deafening cheer went up from the crowd.
It will also help protect the deaf and people who leave their homes empty. The Sun
He showed a slide of a sign for deafblind literacy that demonstrated concepts of best practices such as high contrast lettering, the angle of the plate that the braille was on, the raised lettering on the words. Web Teacher › Report from WDN 09: Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals, IV
The noise out in the street was deafening.
This paved the way for future legislation improving the lives of deafblind people. Times, Sunday Times
The noise outside had risen to a deafening, ear-splitting crescendo.
The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep.
In an explosion that left me temporarily deaf, the cannon stopped pelting us with energy and began hailing us with pieces of its debris instead.
The first couple he tried were both profoundly deaf, and he didn't get much reaction beyond a bewildered smile.
It was impossible to hear anything over the deafening crashing of the desks or the unbearable exploding of the hallways.
In old age she was troubled by deafness and played little active part in her husband's later political career.
Inventor Jose Hernandez-Rebollar has invented an electronic glove that transforms American Sign Language hand-gestures into readable or hearable text, to help deaf people communicate more easily with hearing folks. Boing Boing
It was not a crushing weight, such as an operation, or seeing one's best friend off to live in Tasmania; nor was it anything so light as a committee meeting, or a deaf uncle to tea: it was a kind of welter-weight doom. Mrs. Miniver
It is a genetic kidney disease which usually affects young men and can cause kidney failure and deafness. The Sun
Protesters find that their objections fall upon deaf ears; their reasons belittled and their sheer weight of numbers ignored.
He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic.
He couldn't carry a tune to save his life - he was tone-deaf.
The noise was quite deafening, and my attempt to block all these unwanted sounds by avoiding the vision was almost completely futile.
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
None so deaf as those that won't hear.
These guys are inexplicably stupid, tone deaf, suicidal and egomaniacally blind to the wishes of the American people. Home/News
And pity the nine million partially deaf people on these islands. Times, Sunday Times
A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
In response, the dragon let out a deafening roar.
The couple believe that deafness is a cultural identity as well as a physical reality. Boing Boing: April 7, 2002 - April 13, 2002 Archives
She didn't care, even when we said she was tone-deaf!
The three deaf brothers in the family all used fingerspelling extensively (of English). They also used a dialect of ASL and some Manually Coded English as well.
This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
In January 2009, Gordon Brown submitted a recipe for rumbledethumps to a cookbook for Donaldson's School for the Deaf, describing it as his favourite food Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The award is given annually to a deaf person of outstanding merit in leadership, citizenship and general achievement.
She's a partially blind and deaf thalidomide victim awaiting spinal surgery. The Sun
If one continues to cast an indifferent eye on/to turn a deaf ear to/ to be blind to/to overlook the problem, things are sure to go from bad to worse.
Each of the flats for the deaf has been set up with a computer video link, enabling the deaf tenants to communicate in sign language with workers in the staff base.
Complications of mumps include meningitis, encephalitis and deafness.
The explosion ripped through the steel hull of Cole on the port side amidships with a deafening roar.
The father of two has lived in the country for the past 29 years after moving there to set up a charity working with the deaf.
THE noise was deafening as a delirious Manchester crowd rose to applaud a stunning home win. The Sun
It would be a tragedy if the increased use of video led to deafblind people becoming less and less able to access the web. Archive 2008-02-01
The factory owners turned a deaf ear to the demands of the workers.
Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.
The typical approach both SDRs and superhets have to solve this problem is to make the receiver more deaf.
He is a former chief executive officer of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Others were unable to identify the stick carried by deaf and blind pedestrians. Times, Sunday Times
We have isolated a new gene for hereditary deafness.
In their report, published today in The Journal of Experimental Biology, the researchers warn that noise pollution—as well as chemical pollution—could deafen whales.
He is profoundly deaf and uses hearing aids until he can have a cochlea implant later this year.
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
The noise out in the street was deafening.
A post-mortem declaration of genius, by its very nature, falls on the deafened ears of the one who wishes to hear it the most.
The yaps and yowls are almost deafening, and as other sleds depart, your dogs go absolutely mental, tugging on their leads and jumping forwards.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
The explosion from the big old-fashioned gun was deafening.
Deaf people also imagined hearing people to hold more negative attitudes than they actually did.
The symptoms produced by exostoses are a prolonged blocked feeling of the ears after water activities with deafness and recurrent otitis externa.
We're being deafened by next door's stereo.
It takes a huge amount of blustering and a large measure of deafness to defend the sales of British gold.
Communication is difficult now because he is both deaf and has an unpredictable temper.
a deafening noise
And the only one who saw through the hyperbole and the meaningless superlatives was my Aunt Petunia, and she was half-deaf.
The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals.
And why the deafen silence of the normally vocal Republicans remain mute, with no loud attacks on everything the Media Imperial President has done, with no rhetorical shouting points repeated ad nauseum, just taking the high road with a few reasonable discussions over actual policy points? Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Arm of the Military-Industrial Complex
He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed. CHAPTER XI
The text teletypewriter (TTY) first allowed the deaf to talk on a phone over two decades ago, but the drawback is that in order to talk, users are tethered to a bulky machine. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Deaf and mobile
The leaves of bael are astringent, a laxative, a febrifuge and an expectorant and are useful in ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes and asthmatic complaints.
Many of the TV programmes are broadcast with subtitles for the deaf.
The narrator makes himself deaf from playing the drums and settles into a gentle life. The Times Literary Supplement
The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country. John Feffer: Fela: Music Is Still the Weapon
The silence of the record is deafening and dispositive.
Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
Michaels barked, pounding out crisp sharp words that so thundered with command that even the untrained and deaf would jump to obey.
We excused it as deafness and persuaded him to buy an expensive hearing aid (which he then refused to wear). Times, Sunday Times
Edinburgh, which no other city has to shew; a college of the deaf and dumb, who are taught to speak, to read, to write, and to practice arithmetick, by a gentleman, whose name is Braidwood. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
A cash-strapped football club for deaf people will be able to continue thanks to a £2,000 donation
Subsequently, I visited each community to establish personal contact with the deaf people and their families.
The wolf let out a deafening roar of pain.
For deaf children a stronger connection should exist between orthographic and semantic features.
Ashton became deaf at the age of just 18 months after suffering a bout of pneumonia.
Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died.
Terry Galloway is a deaf, queer writer and performer, who tours her one-woman shows as a cheap way of seeing the world. Women Among Us: Terry Galloway
The noise was deafening in the small confines of the workshop.
Acoustic systems have been implicated in deafening sea life. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect
At that same instant, a deafening explosion set the windows rattling.
He's been totally/partially deaf since birth.
With my left ear painlessly buzzing in its temporary deafness and the roof of my mouth lightly seared and tasting like steak, I retired for the evening.
The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
Buyer's deafness: selective, quickly fading, total BLOCKQUOTEage of the audial canal. Sauce for the goose
I winced in pain, so distracted by his intensity that I was deaf to the clunking of boots on the concrete floor.
Little deaf Antony thought of tobacco unlimited, a silver-mounted pipe, and plenty of unforbidden rum. Tropic Days
They are deaf and blind to public dismay at the cultural tsunami heading their way. The Sun
I winced at the deafening sound which was suddenly accompanied by a pre-recorded message in English: Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Kujira Maru | Station151
I think Mum's going a bit deaf .
Walk past a herd of them and the noise is almost deafening. Times, Sunday Times
Before establishing the poetry workshop Liz worked - in the late 1970s and 80s - as a peripatetic teacher of the deaf.
blacksnake," and, with a low whistle, urged his animals, that bounded forward, snorting with fear as a crack of thunder followed, booming down the gorges with deafening echoes. The Shagganappi
He outlined the practice of audism in which deaf people shun the traditional deaf community and signing, preferring to use residual hearing, speech and lip-reading.
So I have been deaf in one ear with a sort of "staticky" sound, for about a year now and have recently had an MRI examination. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Antuñano is unfortunately very deaf, and obliged to use an ear-trumpet. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Her teachers said she was a slow learner, whereas in actual fact she was partially deaf.
It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves, particularly the young.
Lisa is deaf in one ear and partially blind.
This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
He's been totally/partially deaf since birth.
That kind of political tone deafness is a disqualification in my book.
They ticked the boxes but were deaf and blind to the possibility of injustice. Times, Sunday Times
The Deaf often fingerspell
Week 1 Puppies are born blind and deaf and with a limited sense of smell. The Sun
From three-fifths to two-thirds of the cases of deafness are caused adventitiously -- by accident or disease. The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American. Day of Honey
Her struggling and shrieking was met with deafening, stinging slaps to her cheeks, rendering her even more determined to be released from his death grip.
But after the Congress of Milan on deaf education oralist approaches gradually became universal.
When the time-delayed fuse is lit by pulling the pin, the powder burns, creating a deafening bang and a blinding flash.
Have you, too, been deafened by the silence from certain quarters as large tracts of this nation's land and infrastructure were hocked off to local and foreign bidders?
They are more likely to have one or more chronic health problems, especially neurosensory conditions (cerebral palsy, blindness, or deafness), and are shorter than normal-weight babies. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The reading age of prelingually deaf is sometimes below that of their chronological age. A Maiden's Grave
But none of this excuses the fact that Hollywood's silence is deafening.
This piping is easily heard by _any_ one not actually deaf, and not the least danger of its being taken for any humming; in fact, it is not to be mistaken for anything else _but piping_, even when you hear it for the first time. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
The partly deaf man inclined forward to hear the conversation more clearly.
There is no distinction in India between deafness and deaf and dumbness and, because Ian can speak, they have trouble believing that he cannot hear.
None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
As schools faced the challenge of oralist policies, Deaf churches gained greater influence by promoting cohesion within the community.
Any gang of politicos is like the eighth circle of Hell, but the American breed is specially awful because they take it seriously and believe it matters; wherever you went, to dinner or an excursion or to pay a call, or even take a stroll, you were deafened with their infernal prosing-I daren't go to the privy without making sure some seedy heeler wasn't lying in wait to get me to join a caucus. Isabelle
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would tech him the joys of sound.
Experimental, semi-documentary film, showing London's East End through the lives of two deaf-mutes.
Almost as soon as we dropped into the water we were deafened by a series of high-pitched clicks and squeaks and whistles, and about 20 dolphins turned up.
The children mimic her arm movements as they belt out a deafening do-re-mi song of nonsense syllables. Soap Operas, Frozen Food And Convertibles
To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
For years the start and end of the two minutes silence across the town has been signalled by the firing of a maroon - a firework-like device that produces a deafening boom.
He is not for turning; he is deaf to reason.
In contrast to the dignified silence from the other side, even slyly whispered accusations are magnified to sound deafeningly crass.
We should be kicking Blair to kingdom come about his corrupt practices, sadly all we've heard from the Tories is a deafening silence. Is it Time for State Funding of Political Parties?
The explosions deafened our ears, we had buzzing sounds in our ears, " Jose said.
He campaigned for universal male suffrage but was deaf to any suggestion that women should have the right to vote. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Bell's researches in electric telephony began with the artificial production of musical sounds, suggested by the work in which he was then engaged in Boston, viz., teaching the deaf and dumb to speak.
She is deaf, but refuses to let her disability prevent her from doing what she wants to do.
Aeroplanes resound to the deafening rasp of anorak pen-pockets when passengers are told to fill in their landing cards.
Plumes of white smoke and sparks rose into the evening sky as each man o’ war loosed off a deafening broadside.
Education Bradford is proposing to teach more deaf children in the district's mainstream schools.
He is said to be deaf in one ear and partially blind. Times, Sunday Times
Jericho" (CBS) -- Deaf actress Shoshannah Stern has played Bonnie Richmond on the sci-fi show for two years, and according to my informant is beloved character. Make that lucky 13 characters with Jericho's return
Edgerton, he began rowing towards me with Annabel, she happy despite herself, and when I see it wouldn't do to tarry no longer, I cuts loose the old deaf boatman and unstops his mouth. Lahoma
Others have been left deaf or blind. Times, Sunday Times
What you're looking for is 100 watts per channel, across all frequencies, which is enough to deafen most people.
The old man was deaf as a post, it was impossible to whisper to him.
Standing next to the machine all day left her deaf in one ear.
To a bleary-eyed child after a night at sea with the Burns Laird line, the noise of the Belfast men at work seemed deafening.
This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
Lisa is deaf in one ear and partially blind.
For deaf and hard of hearing enquiries, the helpline will offer minicom access at a local rate on 0845 070 4003.
Via MeFi, where an interesting discussion about opposition in deaf communities to cochlear implants ensues. Bad News Saturday « Gerry Canavan
Alice herself was deaf and dumb until - she claims - she saw a vision of the Immaculate Conception.
It feels like being tone-deaf in a world of musicians.
He is now profoundly deaf. Times, Sunday Times
He could be very tender and gracious, but often seemed tone-deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations tolerable. Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
Finding their words falling on the deaf ears of their fellow fangirls and fanboys, they retreated to the safety of their shrines, confident in their belief that they had chosen the true apogee of cute.
Will he or she end up with some form of long-term disability such as deafness, cerebral palsy or epileptic seizures? Times, Sunday Times
France, of course, had protested strongly; but representations made directly to William by the French ambassador had fallen on deaf ears. ANTI-ICE
At the opening ceremony, the atmosphere is intense and the noise deafening. Times, Sunday Times
I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin
On the picket line there was the deafening sound of car horns tooting support, and strikers cheering, singing and chanting.
My minnie does constantly deave me, [mother, deafen] Robert Burns How To Know Him
It hit with a deafening roar, punching the ship sideways so violently that it rolled hard over to port.
Hearing kids and deaf kids can interact with each other and bring everybody closer together.
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
A pioneering form of gene therapy has cured deafness in guinea pigs.
He was repeatedly astonished to find those around Him heedless of the air which He drew in with open mouth, blind to what He saw, deaf to what He heard, unelated by His joy. Thoughts on religion at the front
Writers complain about tone-deaf editors who read with their eyes and not with their ears.
None are so deaf as those who won't hear.
One can better communicate with deaf - mutes with good sign language.
An American psy-ops (psychological operations) team outside the city blasted back with deafening AC / DC heavy metal tracks played from lorry-mounted speakers.
And pity the nine million partially deaf people on these islands. Times, Sunday Times
Although profoundly deaf himself, he had eventually succeeded in gaining places at Wadham College and then the Royal Northern College of Music.
functional deafness
Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness.
Even tone deaf students can perform this experiment but the sonometer must be correctly tensioned or spurious harmonics interfere with the frequency determination.
Others were unable to identify the stick carried by deaf and blind pedestrians. Times, Sunday Times
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
Indiana School for the Deaf, which was founded more than 165 years ago and promotes what it calls a bilingual, bicultural philosophy that includes American Sign Language and English. NYT > Home Page
His constitutionally grounded discourse fell on deaf ears, according to him.
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would tech him the joys of sound.
Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
You walk in to the deafening metronome uncha-uncha-uncha robotic caterwaul, the music almost binary in nature 101101-ing to a crowd of Latino gangbangers, septuagenarians, slumming rich kids and washed-up high school jocks with backwards hats who were just looking for something to date rape. Someplace Else
He was a very unusual musician inasmuch as he was totally deaf.
Just over 5 percent of federal employees are disabled and less than 1 percent are people with targeted disabilities -- defined as deafness, blindness, mental retardation, dwarfism and paraplegia, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kudos to federal workers helping a deaf colleague

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