DEAFEN in a Sentence

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For DEAFEN, below is one of 21 sentences:
It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEAFEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deafen
 v.  make or render deaf
 v.  be unbearably loud
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  He shivered a little, and with his face between her breasts pressed her soft breasts up over his ears, to deafen him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  As she stood hanging to the sill, a deafening explosion burst on her ears, louder than any cannon she had ever heard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  As Rhett jerked the horse's head and turned him into another street, another deafening explosion tore the air and a monstrous skyrocket of flame and smoke shot up in the west.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  There were high squeals and low squeals, grunts, and wails of agony; there would come a momentary lull, and then a fresh outburst, louder than ever, surging up to a deafening climax.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  So amid deafening uproar it clattered to and fro, growing thinner and flatter and longer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
6  There was a deafening rumble of thunder within his head.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Having ridden in the smoke past the Sixth Corps, behind the artillery which had been moved forward and was in action, deafening them with the noise of firing, they came to a small wood.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
8  The guns of that battery were being fired continually one after another with a deafening roar, enveloping the whole neighborhood in powder smoke.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
9  At the same instant he was dazzled by a great flash of flame, and immediately a deafening roar, crackling, and whistling made his ears tingle.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
10  Just when Pierre snatched at and struck up the pistol Makar Alexeevich at last got his fingers on the trigger, there was a deafening report, and all were enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVIII
11  One blinding flash after another came, and peal on peal of deafening thunder.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  When she began to suck again, we could see the water all inside whirling round and round, and it made a deafening sound as it broke against the rocks.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
13  Then there was a deafening roar.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
14  Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of him a sort of trumpet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN
15  It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Example Sentence:
1  The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it.
2  We were almost deafened by the crash/roar of the surf.
3  A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life.