deaf-and-dumb

How to use deaf-and-dumb in a sentence

• Before he meddled with it, it used to talk back like a mother-in-law, but now it was only fit for the deaf-and-dumb asylum.

  Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

• Goose-Skin runs after the trouvere, and imitating the gestures of the deaf-and-dumb, indicates that he pledges himself to silence.

  The Iron Pincers | Eugne Sue

• This time Raissa had her little deaf-and-dumb sister with her.

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. | Various

• The last column inquired whether the householder was “deaf-and-dumb, blind, imbecile, or lunatic?”

  The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 | Edward Tyas Cook

• This may be a reason why Sophy, with her deaf-and-dumb child in her arms, seemed to stand silent by me all through my nap.

  Doctor Marigold | Charles Dickens