deaf
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Hospital staff asked a teenage boy to tell his deaf mother that her father might die, according to the findings of an ombudsman.
From BBC
The charities surveyed 1,114 people who were deaf or had hearing loss and lived in England.
From BBC
Protestations that big spending is justified by Amazon’s fastest growth rate in its cloud-computing unit for the past 13 quarters looked set to fall on deaf ears judging by the initial stock market reaction.
From Barron's
Ms. Back recalls that, soon after the accident and a subsequent operation, her 7-year-old told her: “Mama, when you started falling, something amazing happened: I became deaf. Suddenly, I couldn’t hear a thing.”
“American pheasants?” asked Arnold Myerson, who as I mentioned was nearly deaf.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
