deaf

Example Sentences

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Before foreign stocks emerged from their coma last year, calls to look abroad mostly fell on deaf ears.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Critics panned it as tone deaf and uncreative, and it was cancelled after two seasons.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

The BBC has been told some Whitehall-based civil servants who received the letter found the prime minister's words "tone deaf".

From BBC • May 6, 2026

Rosales, a single mother of three in San Antonio, earns $29,000 a year working for a company that provides assistance to the deaf and hard of hearing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

But what she said, in a wail hard to understand over the train racket and me still part deaf, was “I left my bucket in the blackberry bushes, Will! Hit were might near full!”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns