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
• Why did no one in the room think: hmm isn't this a bit tone deaf.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• At least four of those killed were deaf, loved ones have said.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Once again, the City Council is deaf to the wishes and needs of the people.
  — Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
• Those pleas fell on deaf ears, and Georgia took over and kneeled out the clock to end the half.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2021
• On Thursday, the deaf actor was awarded the keys to the city of Mesa.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• The deaf parents don’t see anything wrong with the child.
  — Veronica Wells, Essence, 10 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Partially deaf, Williford grabbed the arm of a Black man next to him and asked what was said.
  — al, 16 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The Giddy Girls follow, led by tone deaf but gosh darn earnest Gia.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2021
• Whether that appeal will fall on deaf ears remains to be seen.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• After all, being deaf doesn't seem to have held him back.
  — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 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