Example Sentences

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After a five-shot event, he is powder-blackened, tearful and half-deafened.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had stunned the majority of them, in fact, so that now, as they manned the barricade, they were half-stupid, more than half-deafened, and hardly knew what had happened.

From With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front by Webb, Archibald

Jeremy was half-deafened, and his whole body was jarred.

From The Black Buccaneer by Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren)

They were half-drowned, and half-blinded, and half-deafened, but there is a reward to every effort.

From This Is the End by Benson, Stella