How to Use deaden in a Sentence
deaden
verb- He took aspirin to deaden the pain.
- The new insulation will help to deaden the noise from the street outside.
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All the raw edges of pain dulled, deadened, drained away.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2020
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The barrage of facts and picayune contention deadened the room.
—James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
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In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
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Of course, there's a downside to that room and sound-deadening in the form of weight.
—Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018
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Sometime ice was the only thing used to try to deaden the pain before the limbs were crushed.
—Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
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And the shine from his latest gold medal hasn’t come close to deadening.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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No one else had beached their boat and swam toward me as alpine runoff deadened their limbs.
—Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2024
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The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
—Seth Borenstein, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023
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The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
—Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
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Meanwhile, back in meatspace, the world burns on—one brain-deadening newsfeed at a time.
—Peter Rubin, WIRED, 4 June 2019
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Apparently, part of this comes from the foam around the ears, which is noise-deadening.
—Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
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The only sure-fire way to deaden these coughs was using an opioid medicine.
—Jeffrey E. Poehlmann, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
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And, apparently the years of loud music with Bon Jovi have deadened his hearing to the sound of MA.
—John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
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The tuning of these earphones also pushes back the mids, which deadens vocals and makes the sound feel veiled.
—Vlad Savov, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
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However, the airport does have a large wall at the north end of its property to deaden sound.
—Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
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In this soul-deadening freeze, who wouldn’t seek solace in a bottle?
—Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
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Things like that might deaden your palate before your tasting.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2024
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That’s also why the Marvel movies are, over all, deadening.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
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That could be interpreted – as Verlander did – as a move to juice or deaden the ball at MLB's whim.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
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Perez's homer and an stingy bullpen helped deaden the blow starting pitcher Jason Hammel dealt the Royals.
—Maria Torres, kansascity, 11 May 2018
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And so is the payoff — a huge building that enhances rather than deadens its surroundings.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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One way of deadening the mind to distractions is by blowing opponents off the court.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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With each needle drop, Foley’s eyes deaden, as lifeless as the world outside.
—Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 25 May 2022
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My only wish, which comes late at night, is for more sound-deadening material in the walls.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
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For Constellation to help in this setting, the Meyer team would first need to deaden the space as much as possible.
—Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
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Over the last three months, their lives had become deadened by the extreme constraints placed upon them and by a total lack of contact with the outside world.
—Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
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They were accused of storing baseballs in a humid room to deaden them and to help a Chicago team built on pitching and defense.
—Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
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The gray day poured in through the store’s glass front, deadening any touches of coziness in the strip mall space, which shares a bland Bismarck block with a Burger King.
—Natasha Lennard, Esquire, 19 Sep. 2017
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