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Afterwards, Salonga said the audience response had been "deafening".

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2014

Recalling that he and John Kennedy talked about medicare in almost every state in the 1960 campaign, Johnson said that there had been "deafening applause" every time it was mentioned.

From Time Magazine Archive

The noise of the carriages had been deafening, and now there was not a sound.

From Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

From the time that we entered the gallery the shouts and revelry had been deafening.

From Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty by Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler

The noise of the carriage had been deafening, and now there was not a sound.

From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)