Example Sentences

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The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

I don’t, however, want to get hit in the head, which I worry will deaden my brain.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2015

“They will have all the attributes of a well-kept, dignified cemetery. . . . These projects will not revitalize downtown, they will deaden it.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2014

As intelligence spreads more widely over the land, why fear that it will deaden religion?

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

It won't be bad in the cabins either, even when they keep the sliding door open, for this screen of thick sail-cloth will deaden what sound there is.

From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Anderson, Karl