deadening

Example Sentences

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If You're Glad I'll Be Frank imagined the speaking clock as a real woman speaking live, her internal monologue utterly at odds with the deadening repetitiveness of endlessly intoning "at the third stroke..."

From BBC

“Slave Play” reveals the way America’s racial past is inscribed on the body through both desire and the deadening of desire.

From Los Angeles Times

A crisis of deadening is being passed down to the next generation.

From New York Times

The result is a picture so carelessly plotted, and so coarsely photographed, that it traps its cast in a deadening cycle of blasé snark and humdrum slaughter.

From New York Times

These codes applied not only to clothes, but to jewelry, handkerchiefs, wreaths on the door, and straw deadening the noise from the streets.

From Washington Post