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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some saw the comment as deaf to the struggles faced by artists from diverse backgrounds.
  — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• One of the most touching scenes in the episode comes when Hughes and his fellow deaf friends are eating at a pizza place.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• Our eyes were opened very, very widely to how marginalized deaf people are.
  — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2023
• Its 8,500 clients include those with special-needs: dogs that are blind, deaf and need wheelchairs to get around.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 26 Feb. 2023
• Though known for the sound of their hissing and slithering, snakes themselves were long believed to be deaf.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
• The teacher empathizes, having fallen in love as a teenager with a deaf girl.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Echo is the first Marvel project to feature a deaf protagonist and the first series to air all five episodes at once.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
• The man asked Davies not to touch him. Davies, described in court records as deaf, tapped the suspect on the shoulder again and put his hand in the man’s face, the affidavit said.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2023
• To them, Plummer was providing a voice for tragedies falling on deaf ears.
  — Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Woodard — who is deaf — played a young deaf apocalypse survivor named Sam.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2023
• In Minnesota and Michigan, prisoners train dogs for the blind and deaf.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• The American man met Sheila, a woman who lives in the Philippines, two years ago in a Facebook group for deaf singles.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023
• At the beginning of the invasion, her team worked with a driver who was deaf and couldn’t hear the sound of incoming bombs.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024