How to Use deaf in a Sentence

deaf

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• He has been deaf since birth.
• He's going a little deaf so you'll have to speak up.
• She's completely deaf in her right ear.
• That blast destroyed her restaurant and left her deaf in her right ear.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
• That will make the film accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Mar. 2022
• Open captions will be made accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2022
• To some people, this preoccupation with horror can seem tone deaf.
  — Sarah Kollat, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
• The jump scares don’t stop in this truly chilling tale of a deaf writer (Kate Siegel) who’s all alone at a remote cabin.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• Entity List for years with demonstrated proof that is a military end user, but this has fallen on deaf ears.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Newcomer Davis-Kent nabbed the role following a nationwide open call for deaf child actors.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
• Ridloff and Cox are both deaf, and the latter additionally is an amputee who uses a prosthetic leg.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
• Only about 1% of the deaf community attends religious services of any kind, surveys show.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2022
• Wong hopes her team – which is made up of deaf and hard of hearing folks, immigrants and people with disabilities – will be at the forefront of ushering in that progress.
  — Pauleanna Reid, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• About a quarter in Disney on Thursday night appeared to be deaf, animatedly waving their hands to applause at the end.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• Traditionally, there have been few prominent deaf novelists, especially among those who were born without hearing.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Gallaudet died in 1851, and the deaf community raised money for the original monument, unveiled three years later.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2022
• And many of these deaf kids didn’t have a TV at that time.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• But her support, and that of much of the crowd, fell on deaf cat ears.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 16 Dec. 2022
• At least four of those killed were deaf, loved ones have said.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• On Thursday, the deaf actor was awarded the keys to the city of Mesa.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• Payne knows that lessons to a losing team can fall on deaf ears.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
• Those boys couldn't sneak up on a blind and deaf man while a band was playing.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• The sale and the name change is kind of falling on deaf ears, there are still people who don’t get it.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Pleas for tougher gun laws have been falling on deaf ears.
  — Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• In it, a deaf writer who lives out in the woods alone has to fight for her life when a killer shows up out of nowhere.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
• The kids were unimpressed, and my efforts to rein in feature creep fell on deaf ears.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• Her parents, Wolf and Esther, would be deaf mutes working in the field.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• Hamm's cop is on the case that involves moldy fast food, a deaf hitman and a bunch of dim bulbs not good at crimes.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• The letter informed her that the school had a contract with the District to serve White deaf children.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• In Shang’s home, there is a painting gifted by a fan who is deaf and mute from years ago.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024