How to Use deaf in a Sentence

deaf

adjective

• 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.
• 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
• It’s the first film with a largely deaf cast to win best picture.
  — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Now deaf actors wait to see what the future will bring.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
• Pleas for tougher gun laws have been falling on deaf ears.
  — Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022
• That will make the film accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Mar. 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
• First, one of the characters, a chimpanzee named Dave, is deaf.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• That blast destroyed her restaurant and left her deaf in her right ear.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
• And Troy Kotsur, the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
• 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
• She was forced to lie in her third-floor room, alone with a deaf woman and a mute man, bedridden like her.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Now Walker was about 15 years old, blind and deaf, living his last days.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN, 12 July 2024
• Tom, who is fully deaf, even learned to play the piano by feeling the vibrations of the keys.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• His three eldest sons were deaf and there was no employment for them at the time.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
• More than half of the characters in the film will be deaf, and played by actors who are deaf, Deadline says.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• Catherine’s husband has also been unable to hear her, deaf to anything but the gonging of his own jealous rage.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
• Arizona prosecutors dropped charges against a deaf Black man beaten by Phoenix police.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025