How To Use Deafened In A Sentence
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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.
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A flash nearly blinded Talarissa, and the boom of the explosion would have deafened her if it hadn't been for the helmet's sound suppressors.
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Only sensation survived: being deafened by the rooster, yet finding silence unendurable.
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Usually, but not always at night, lit by blue and red flashing strobes, you get deafened by the Fire & Rescue generators as they try and cut people free.
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My protests, which ultimately sounded something like "Only Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld understand me," fell on deafened ears.
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After a noisy afternoon with a Bren firing 12 inches from my left ear, I was deafened.
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He was deafened by the noise from the gun.
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A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
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The explosion permanently deafened her in her right ear.
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We who live there are deafened by the noise, gassed by the fumes and face injury crossing over the road.
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After a noisy afternoon with a Bren firing 12 inches from my left ear, I was deafened, and though my hearing eventually returned I was left with a loud hiss.
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The noise of the typewriters deafened her.
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Sam's arrival was noticed just as the bell rang, so that she was deafened by the combined sound of the bell and enthusiastic greetings of her friends.
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In Razgrad we had to take breakfast in the coffee bar, and, as we studied the four-choice menu, we were deafened by rap music and engulfed in smoke from the staff's cigarettes.
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But maybe the wind whipped my words away, or maybe the blast had deafened Porter to anything but the blood coursing through him because he kept focussed on riding us straight and fast, and didn't even act like I were there at all.
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The music deafened me and the crowds terrified me.
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The flash came down with a growling roar, dazzled my eyes and deafened my ears.
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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.
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We were almost deafened by the crash/roar of the surf.
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I was almost deafened by the high-pitched scream of the fire alarm.
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Many late deafened adults suffer from something I term deafness paranoia.
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On a regular basis, peace activists are humiliated, blindfolded and shot in the kneecaps, sprayed with sewage and chemicals, deafened and "microwaved" by newer and ever more sadistic methods of crowd control, imprisoned and tortured.
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The Resource Group for Deafened People plan to demonstrate how hearing appliances can make daily living easier.
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My mate was chatting to a local plod about a road accident down Selby way, when he was momentarily deafened by the sound of raucous laughter down the telephone.
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It was then that other emotions thundered into her brain, clouded her vision and deafened her to the sounds of the birds and windsong.
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A chorus of male voices rose above the din, crescendoing, singing ‘Jezebel’ in ringing tones that deafened the room with awe.
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We were almost deafened by the crash/roar of the surf.
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It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller.
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These days, though, we're all deafened not just by the advancing years, but by the ticking of our biological clocks, and fertility is a vexed issue for exactly the opposite reasons.
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The head injury deafened her for life.
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The last passenger must have deafened himself by turning the volume up to the maximum!
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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.
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We're being deafened by next door's stereo.
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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?
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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
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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.
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The explosions deafened our ears, we had buzzing sounds in our ears, " Jose said.
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He has long been deafened by amplified hymns in his temple, leaving no scope for boons and prayers.
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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.
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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.
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An immediate roar deafened the cafeteria as everyone surged to gather around the battle.
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Loud yells and screams deafened Laura from any sound.
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A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
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Gates were always specially protected and designed, built as guarded approaches, deafened by earth and water, scarps, counterscarps, moats.
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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).
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A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.
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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.
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Apparently, she was temporarily deafened by some anomalous phenomenon.
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His cries for help were deafened by the noise of the railroad.
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Her voice sounded like a deafened croak as she crouched by the girl's side.
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The massive launching blast of the howitzer cannon deafened all that were near.
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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.
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Such desires might seem reasonable if not for the fact that any parent who deafened a hearing baby would be charged with child abuse.
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Sitting on the bike, holding him, deafened by the blatting of the engine noise, she had been happy.
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One mortar landed close to Dr Rathmell, and he was knocked to the ground, temporarily deafened by the blast.
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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.
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I was almost deafened by the high-pitched scream of the fire alarm.
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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.
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The explosion permanently deafened her in her right ear.
