Example Sentences

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For others, stop-start has deadened the joy of driving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The completely irresponsible manner in which we have been gobbled up and dumped at random throughout the Western world has deadened that sense of responsibility to a dull ache .

From Time Magazine Archive

His thought was, "Can that color-bearer have repeated his blow, or am I struck by a ball, which has deadened the sense of feeling?"

From Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Beers, Fannie A.

As it is, she has deadened me into a creature of indifference.

From A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene

It has deadened our feelings on that subject, though I hope without shaking our principles.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various