unhearing

Example Sentences

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It’s as though the debate that Jo and Amy have about whether the stuff of their lives can be considered important—the “domestic joys and struggles”—has fallen on unhearing ears.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

She lectures him on humanity, he teaches her how to fire a rifle, and their disagreements — Cat’s especially — sometimes slide into unhearing self-righteous harangue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2015

He rode unmoved, and apparently unhearing, through 60 solid miles of praise.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the defector plunged on, unheeding �in fact, unhearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sat down, and Norma, incapable of any effort, at least until she could control the emotion that was shaking her like a vertigo, sank back into her own chair, unseeing and unhearing.

From The Beloved Woman by Norris, Kathleen Thompson