DEAF in a Sentence
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63 example sentences for DEAF, such as:
1. He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
2. None so deaf as those that won't hear.
3. None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
4. He turned a deaf ear to all requests for help.
5. There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
2. None so deaf as those that won't hear.
3. None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
4. He turned a deaf ear to all requests for help.
5. There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DEAF
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deaf
a. (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
a. lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 She spoke in a loud cheerful voice, as if the old lady were deaf.
2 She read out for the benefit of her husband, who was deaf: "Where there's a Will there's a Way."
3 He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
4 Mrs. Pegler was by no means deaf, for she caught a word as it was uttered.
5 It was, however, no unusual thing for a priest of those days to be deaf of his Latin ear, and this the person who now addressed Cedric knew full well.
6 The terrified children cried bitterly; but the old woman, who had hitherto remained as quiet as if she had been wholly deaf to all that passed, menaced them into silence.
7 Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed.
8 Well, 'a was neither a deaf man, nor a dumb man, nor a blind man.'
9 When a woman in such a situation, neither old, deaf, crazed, nor whimsical, takes upon herself to sob and soliloquize aloud there is something grievous the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
10 The man is rather deaf, and in any case we must take our chance of that.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
11 However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
Context Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
12 He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf.
13 She was a little deaf, which rendered her talkative.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
14 It seemed as though those walls had been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak.
15 I will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who has a little bed.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 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.
2 None so deaf as those that won't hear.
3 There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
4 None are so deaf as those who will not hear.
5 A husband must be deaf and the wife blind to have quietness.
6 Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.
7 This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
8 Recent research on deaf children has produced some interesting findings about their speech.
9 She is deaf, but refuses to let her disability prevent her from doing what she wants to do.
10 You'll have to be patient with my mother she's going rather deaf.
11 The school was founded with the express purpose of teaching deaf children.
12 The school was founded with the express purpose of teaching deaf children to speak.
13 Master should be soetimes blind and sometimes deaf.
14 He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
15 He turned a deaf ear to all requests for help.