Example Sentences

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But high winds have deafened the instruments to the rumblings from deeper magma, says Rick Aster, a geophysicist at Colorado State University.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

Its sticky soil has thwarted InSight’s heat probe, and in recent months howling winds have deafened its sensitive seismometers.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2020

“This grape juice would have deafened him to Eve’s cunning plan.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2015

They saw without the imperfections of eyesight; they heard on that journey what would have deafened ears; they went through our atmosphere unburned by speed, and were unchilled in the bleak of the outer spaces.

From Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

Such a babble of voices and questions asked, would have deafened any one not concerned in the meeting.

From Polly and Eleanor by Barbour, Harold S.