Example Sentences

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The applause from America’s wise men and women would have been deafening if someone else had said these words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

If United had lost then the noise surrounding him would have been deafening.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2024

Capitol, Young and his Black teammates have been deafening in their quietness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2022

The bill clack from a giant pterosaur, one with a nine-foot-long skull, could have been deafening to a wide range of creatures at close range.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2022

If she’d been any bigger, her shrieks of outrage would have been deafening.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate