How To Use Deafen In A Sentence

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.
These ruminations are chased from my mind like dustballs when the band takes the stage to the deafening approval of their awaiting minions.
Afterwards, Terry tells me he ended up putting in earplugs in between songs, the applause and yelling was deafening him.

A deafening cheer went up from the crowd.
The noise out in the street was deafening.
The noise outside had risen to a deafening, ear-splitting crescendo.
The deafening echo of gunfire roused Lourdes from her sleep.
It was impossible to hear anything over the deafening crashing of the desks or the unbearable exploding of the hallways.
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.
A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
In response, the dragon let out a deafening roar.
The explosion ripped through the steel hull of Cole on the port side amidships with a deafening roar.
THE noise was deafening as a delirious Manchester crowd rose to applaud a stunning home win. The Sun
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.
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.
The explosion from the big old-fashioned gun was deafening.
We're being deafened by next door's stereo.
a deafening noise
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
The silence of the record is deafening and dispositive.
The wolf let out a deafening roar of pain.
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.
The noise was deafening as we reached the little courtyard and stooped to enter the main room of the temple.
I winced at the deafening sound which was suddenly accompanied by a pre-recorded message in English: Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Kujira Maru | Station151
Walk past a herd of them and the noise is almost deafening. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
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?
But none of this excuses the fact that Hollywood's silence is deafening.
It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
What you're looking for is 100 watts per channel, across all frequencies, which is enough to deafen most people.
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.
At the opening ceremony, the atmosphere is intense and the noise deafening. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
An American psy-ops (psychological operations) team outside the city blasted back with deafening AC / DC heavy metal tracks played from lorry-mounted speakers.
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
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
Her worry deafens her to the initial statement.
The thunderous roar of the crowd is deafening even when the stadium is less than half-full.
He has long been deafened by amplified hymns in his temple, leaving no scope for boons and prayers.
No great torrents of water, no spectacular waterfalls, no deafening roars of waters disgorging their immense might.
One detonated a few feet from Aguero, peppering him with shrapnel and deafening him temporarily in one ear.
Nature decided to put an abrupt end to our finger-pointing conspiracy theorists' dialogue, when a deafening fart emptied from the anus of someone soundly asleep downstairs.
The first impression of all, overmastering everything else for a while, is the frightful, deafening din from the conveyor belt which carries the coal away. Down the Mine
The chorus calling for the Fed to open its money spigots further has become deafening.
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
The diaphones were absolutely deafening and sounded a 2 tone blast every minute or less.
Then, when the motor clattered into action, it belched a sooty puff from the exhaust pipe, terrified nearby cats and deafened all around as you drove away.
Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
The artillery noise was deafening. The Sun
She comforted herself at first with the thought that with the brawling, deafening stream between them, there would be no chance for embarrassing conversation.
The shouts of hundreds of pheasants were almost deafening. Times, Sunday Times
THE noise was deafening as a delirious Manchester crowd rose to applaud a stunning home win. The Sun
She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
The unemployment queues lengthened and the howls from main street were deafening. Times, Sunday Times
The advantage of large headphones is that they block out most outside noise, so you can hear detail in music without resorting to deafening volume. Times, Sunday Times
The flight station was instantly filled with a deafening, rasping, angry noise, as if a chainsaw had been started at full throttle.
At several points during our conversation, I simply couldn't hear over the deafening thump of my own pulse.
At 18.55 I heard a roar from the runway and looked over to see Concorde just taking off - the noise was deafening and it felt like it shook the bus.
We have been at the dam in years gone by when the roar of water pouring over the spillway was deafening, and could even be heard at the car park.
The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals.
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
Its satirical edge was sharpened by the deafening volume. Times, Sunday Times
In the stands, although not full, the noise was deafening. Times, Sunday Times
My burst shattered the wall above his head as he took the stairs full tilt; sending wood chips flying, half-deafening me and filling the tiny hallway with the acrid stench of cordite and hot lead.
As I squeezed the trigger, the sound was deafening, the gun jumped uncontrollably in my hands.
The noise was deafening outside the turret. Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
An immediate roar deafened the cafeteria as everyone surged to gather around the battle.
Are you ready to finally have your most deafening inclinations and desires voiced for you?
Contemporary descriptions all exclaim the overwhelming deafening noise of the machines, and the clouds of cotton waste like snow in the air. Times, Sunday Times
He returned yesterday to a deafening roar of hisses and boos and expletives.
Gouts of superheated water geysered, consumed by the column of fire, each rocketing fountain propelled heavenward by a deafening, heart-stopping concussion that left cannonading echoes in its wake.
Loud yells and screams deafened Laura from any sound.
But none of this excuses the fact that Hollywood's silence is deafening.
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.
A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
I am also hoping to see acceptance of sound suppressors in the U.S. so we don't have to deafen ourselves or our dogs. E.J. Palumbo provided some interesting commentary to a question I posed about the direction of cartridge fads.
The noise in the tunnel was deafening, the dust-filled air practically unbreathable, and in some places the rock drilled out ahead had to be scooped up by hand, passed under the stomach, and kicked back with the feet to men with buckets who, in turn, had to squirm back to the face of the cliff to dump their loads. Colossus
Besides the sheer danger of war reporting, these books give a palpable sense of the dislocation and discomfort of the job, the stench of war and the deafening noise of it, the grunge and grime of it.
Gates were always specially protected and designed, built as guarded approaches, deafened by earth and water, scarps, counterscarps, moats.
ETA: Via Neil Gaiman, here's a better photo of me (and him and Frank Wu, who nearly deafened me with his whoops of delight). I need not to need
The clamour was deafening at the lower end of the "clachan," where most of the show folk congregated. The Dew of Their Youth
Then comes the military réveille, and the deafening 'rataplan' of regimental drums, and the town is soon alive with people arriving and departing by the early trains; whilst others collect in the market-place in holiday attire with baskets of flowers, and commence the erection of an altar to the Virgin in the middle of the square. Normandy Picturesque
At that same instant, a deafening explosion set the windows rattling.
The last passenger must have deafened himself by turning the volume up to the maximum!
On that note, the silence from politicians and pundits is deafening.
I was almost deafened by the high-pitched, panicked scream that resounded in my mind, and it was all I could do to keep myself from wincing.
They fired off deafening anti-aircraft rounds by way of celebration. Times, Sunday Times
The thunderous roar of the crowd is deafening even when the stadium is less than half-full.
Apparently, she was temporarily deafened by some anomalous phenomenon.
A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Not their beauty, not their particularity, just their smothering, deafening fecundity. SACRAMENT
An overweight, middle-age woman struts out on stage wearing a tube top, miniskirt and high heels to the deafening whoops and hollers of the studio audience.
The pound and scrape of feet, claws, and metal talons was deafening.
As we continued up the hill, the sound of air being sucked into the firebox was deafening, even with ear plugs.
The artillery noise was deafening. The Sun
The ground was as full you would want it, the pitch as unpredictable and the noise as deafening, and what followed fitted that theme rather nicely. Times, Sunday Times
The modern echoes are, at times, deafening. Times, Sunday Times
As they walked up the long driveway, the screams were almost deafening. The Sun
A deafening cheer rose from the crowd as the band walked onto the stage.
The wooden door burst open as if a bomb exploded behind it, the sound penetrating through the already deafening silence.
If the roles were reversed, if Obama were behind by every metric, Clinton would have been coroneted by now, and the cry for her opponent to get out and quit being a spoiler would be deafening. Archive 2008-03-01
Explosions deafen our ears… we expect a mine to explode under our feet any moment now.
The freighter's engines sprang to life, deafening its only two occupants.
They had scarcely hidden themselves, and removed all signs of their presence to Jack's satisfaction, when the storm which had been threatening for so long a time burst with terrific fury, the air being continuously a-glimmer with the flickering and quivering of lightning flashes, while the very ground beneath their feet seemed to quake with the deafening, soul-shaking crash of the thunder; and the rain, breaking loose at last, descended in such cataractal volumes that, even partially sheltered as most of them were by the dense foliage of the scrub amid which they cowered, every soul of them was wet to the skin in less than The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
The chorus of people saying the same thing in conferences around the world is deafening. Times, Sunday Times
The noise was deafening outside the turret. Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
His cries for help were deafened by the noise of the railroad.
Supporters, many waving flags and home-made banners, cheered on their heroes and often the noise was deafening.
At least I think that's what they said because the noise was deafening. Times, Sunday Times
Now the noise was deafening. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice sounded like a deafened croak as she crouched by the girl's side.
The soldiers were dug in on both sides of the bridge from where they mounted a deafening defence using tanks, artillery and RPGs.
The shouting rose to a deafening crescendo .
The simulator's visual effects are as spectacular as the noise is deafening. Times, Sunday Times
In the stands, although not full, the noise was deafening. Times, Sunday Times
The blast was deafening so I knew my colleagues had heard it as well.
The massive launching blast of the howitzer cannon deafened all that were near.
If your connection with someone is real, you will have plenty of time. Do not let your fantasy blind or deafen you to your internal warning signs.
A sharp inward breath as splinters from the wall behind and to his right whizzed past his ears as the explosive bark of the gun nearly deafened him.
The support for the British number one from the Birmingham crowd is deafening.
It was deafeningly loud; he felt hot air burn his face; the car veered across the road.
But he's fighting a slow-motion battle against zero gravity and deafening interference.
The hill feels peaceful in spite of tourists: it's surrounded by fragrant pine trees and deafeningly noisy with cicadas.
This is just another strategy by the RNC to cover for Mark Sanford, Michael Steele, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor as the leaders of the GOP need to ask for his resignation, their silence on this issue has been deafening. tiffany SLED finds no 'misuse' from Sanford
Such desires might seem reasonable if not for the fact that any parent who deafened a hearing baby would be charged with child abuse.
A snorting sound, which, accompanied by a terrific clatter of old iron and the crunching of road-mendings, had been steadily growing from distant to near, and from loud to deafening, now reached a pitch of utter indescribability; and as a large splay-wheeled, tall-funneled, plowing engine rolled off the Bensley highroad and lumbered in upon the right-of-way, the powerful bouquet of hot lubricating oil nullified all other smells, and the atmosphere became opaque to the point of solidity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
Sitting on the bike, holding him, deafened by the blatting of the engine noise, she had been happy. Beard
The silence from the chickenhawk squadron is deafening. Think Progress » CNN: Goss Resignation Is Complete Shock To Defense Dept., Fueling Speculation Over Backstory
I can confirm the crinkle is deafening. dianesmith5 Says: First 100% Compostable Chip Bags to Hit Shelves Soon | Inhabitat
One mortar landed close to Dr Rathmell, and he was knocked to the ground, temporarily deafened by the blast.
We're only a week old, but the buzz is already deafening. Alex Blagg: A Bajillion Hits: The Last Social Media Guru You'll Ever Need
Oscar sounded his deafening horn three times and the gates to the yard swung open.
He is more reckless when younger; when his ear is clipped by a sniper's bullet, his concern is that he doesn't bleed on his single epaulette, and later he is deafened when with his men he uses too much powder sabotaging the enemy.
Two scenes in particular stand out for their use of offscreen space; the first, a shot of a nondescript intersection, which seems unremarkable until the roar of an unseen plane flying very close overhead is deafening.
He defied the deafening clamour for Keynesian stimulus and the dire predictions about the effects of cutting 400,000 public sector jobs. Times, Sunday Times
As they walked up the long driveway, the screams were almost deafening. The Sun
Contemporary descriptions all exclaim the overwhelming deafening noise of the machines, and the clouds of cotton waste like snow in the air. Times, Sunday Times
The quietly foreboding clean guitar and sparse drums point to Pallbearer's comrade in bleakness, Loss, as the first plunge into sludgier territory offers a deafening wink to Pallbearer's fellow Little Rockers in News
Was not the official government silence deafening on this matter of security?
The ring tone's on, but the music is deafening so I can't hear it.
She wished she had earplugs; the sounds were deafening, an eternal shrill threnody of nonlife. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
Families routinely shun other family members, whether through disinheritance and outright withdrawal of any contact or support, or the deafening "silent treatment" that some spouses and parents engage in as a form of punishment for real or perceived offenses. Janice Harper: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
The noise from the birds (mostly lesser crested tern and common noddy) was deafening.
At the stroke of midnight the city erupted with a deafening roar of rockets and the sky exploded in a rainbow of colours. Times, Sunday Times
The noise in the dining room was deafening - people arguing, laughing, toasting.
The modern echoes are, at times, deafening. Times, Sunday Times
A deafening explosion and blinding flash filled the night sky.
His innocence deafens him to the threat of the monsters, a threat which remains solely audible in the first half of the film.
Just then, a fork of light streaked across the sky and a deafening roar filled her ears.
Someone tripped the fire alarm, which added its deafening clangour to the tumult. NIGHT SISTERS
I was almost deafened by the high-pitched scream of the fire alarm.
The voice from the radio faded into the deafening hiss of static.
His entrance to the ring on Thursday was met by a deafening noise of applause, whistle-blowing, chanting and hooters going off.
All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head, The Malay Archipelago
So what's next for Al, a role where he's just a deafening Tasmanian Devil-like tornado, spewing hoo-ha's and drops of midnight hair tonic?
The increase in volume of tissue (a phenomenon known as hypertrophy) is believed to be less prominent in ototoxically deafened cats due to the treatment. News-Letter
The vessel sank after two deafening blasts, which sent a huge fireball and smoke into the air above the city in the early hours yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
The zone has been sealed off since the structure was destroyed at 4am a week ago when witnesses reported mysterious lights and deafening noise. The Sun
He stopped speaking, and the silence was deafening.
The explosion permanently deafened her in her right ear.
They walked in and the noise was almost deafening.
The music deafened me and the crowds terrified me.
The noise in the room was already deafening as men fired their weapons. Times, Sunday Times
The air brakes kicked in, almost deafening her, and the plane slowly came to a halt.
The first gives a meaningless list of numbers, or a hiss of deafening sound. EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
There was a deafening bang, and a large section of the syringa tree detached itself and plummeted to the ground. Rainbow’s End
The current state of publishing does make that task more difficult - the din of publishers competing to flack their latest ‘hot’ titles can become deafening at times.
If a moviegoer tried watching a video with the sound off, the silence would be deafening.
Music was blaring out of the speakers, and almost deafening me.
As I turn around, the cheering cries of the people are almost as deafening as the explosion blows the homemade rocket into the clouds amidst billows of white smoke.
Riho couldn't hear anything but the deafening roar.
The gatekeeper, Gangler, answered all his questions, and gave him a long explanation of Northern mythology, which is recorded in the Younger Edda, and then, having finished his instructions, suddenly vanished with the palace amid a deafening noise. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
As they walked up the long driveway, the screams were almost deafening. The Sun
The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce. Times, Sunday Times
There were thousands of them, and in the water other thousands disported themselves, while the sound that went up from all their throats was prodigious and deafening. Chapter 19
There was a gargle of noise, it was scary, my image blurred, the noise was deafening and frightening, as a monster was emerging.

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