deaf

You hope you don’t work this hard at a thing for it to fall on deaf ears, and I know how microwavable music has been, but I believe the cream rises to the top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

They said new measures had been introduced to help deaf patients, including strengthening awareness and accessibility arrangements to ensure patients' communication needs were better met.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

On a recent afternoon, Terekh arrived with her 12-year-old deaf dog Chuck and her bodyguards at an upscale Kyiv real-estate development that she had helped design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Prince works at the school in the deaf and hard of hearing services and came to the team when Wallace did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

I was deaf and alone in a universe filled solid with small stinging gray streaks.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

As it dawns on her how dangerous and unwieldy the company she wants to inherit actually is, Shiv no longer tries to make herself useful to her dad — and Logan’s ears turn deafer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

“I’m getting more deafer and my wife is getting more louder,” he said with a laugh.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

They are "all screen and the speakers face backwards", he said, though he conceded: "We are all getting a little older and, perhaps, deafer."

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2017

This suggests a co-evolutionary struggle in which the mother’s body becomes deafer as the offspring becomes louder.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2011

Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

I will engage to let the tyrant hear on the deafest side of his head, and will limp into his presence with most unfeigned sincerity.”

From The Pirate City An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The jackal is a social kind of dog, and a pack of hungry or excited jackals can howl in notes fit to pierce the ears of the deafest.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White

The parties were as deaf as deaf could be, The judge was far the deafest of the three.

From Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams

When Solomon Flint returned home that night he found Miss Lillycrop seated beside old Mrs Flint, shouting into her deafest ear.

From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne