How to Use fall on deaf ears in a Sentence

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• Payne knows that lessons to a losing team can fall on deaf ears.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Nov. 2022
• But the family said their requests seemed to fall on deaf ears.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2020
• Despite the children’s best efforts, their protests fall on deaf ears.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• Calls for space arms control measures will likely fall on deaf ears in the Kremlin.
  — Aaron Bateman, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
• That’s one reason calls for racial and gender equality sometimes fall on deaf ears.
  — Christine Peterson, Outside Online, 30 Apr. 2021
• Trump’s blame game, already falling on deaf ears, is about to be out of convenient targets.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 2 Jan. 2026
• His appeals on Tuesday for a regional approach to to drugs did not fall on deaf ears.
  — Hira Humayun and Caitlin Hu, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
• That doesn’t fall on deaf ears with our staff and understand probably two of the hardest places to play in the country are right there.
  — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 30 Nov. 2021
• The board believes that an emergency fundraising campaign right now would fall on deaf ears, Bromley said.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Oct. 2021
• Some issued complaints directly to the company, only for such feedback to fall on deaf ears.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
• If women—and other men refuse to tolerate their behavior and call them out for their actions, their comments will fall on deaf ears.
  — Shelley Zalis, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls on deaf ears.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• But to most Americans, such tendentious bloviating falls on deaf ears.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• Iran’s threats of more severe action in case of further escalation may fall on deaf ears in Israel, to its own peril.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• But her pleas mostly fall on deaf ears, including those of Naomi, who dismisses and patronizes her.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 May 2025
• Newsom has urged residents to rethink their holiday plans, but some think his advice may fall on deaf ears after the incident.
  — Kellie Hwang, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Ad sales execs had been trying to get agencies to bite on OOH viewing for decades, but their overtures always fell on deaf ears.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• We’re either lectured on the history of our own struggle, or appealed to with dire fearmongering and empty promises while our cries fall on deaf ears.
  — Derrick Johnson, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
• This news might fall on deaf ears, given that more and more American workers are losing confidence in their ability to retire at all.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• But their reassurances tend to fall on deaf ears, as Hannah stays up late each night slaving over dresses her mean-spirited boss will likely dismiss with a sneer.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Mar. 2023
• Constantly chirping about what will eventually happen will soon fall on deaf ears and the fans will tune out, turned off by another disappointing season.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 Nov. 2025
• If a tech leader isn’t making the connection from their roadmap to what really matters to the business, their update will fall on deaf ears at the executive and board levels.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• And that non-Native people can be out there to uplift our voices and amplify our story, because too often—all the time, really—our words fall on deaf ears.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 June 2021
• Should those pleas fall on deaf ears, officials warn that the turning of the calendar will bring more pain and suffering to a state already reeling from a year of incalculable loss.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
• More substantive recommendations for rebuilding public support would likely fall on deaf ears.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• In his text message a few hours earlier, Ellison made a more personal entreaty to Zaslav, one that apparently fell on deaf ears.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Dec. 2025
• So while calls to defund the police may fall on deaf ears, how state and local governments finance law enforcement, the courts and corrections is up for scrutiny in Florida.
  — Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
• Lawrence and DiCaprio portrayed astronomers whose attempt to warn humanity about an impending extinction-level event fall on deaf ears.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2023
• Requests fall on deaf ears For travelers who like their bed made and towels replaced daily, figuring out how to get their request across can be a maddening exercise in code-breaking.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
• Confronting Kingpin on the street, Maya has little time for his excuses, which fall on deaf ears (literally and figuratively).
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021