Sentence examples for deafening from inspiring English sources

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deafening

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Present participle of deafen

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That is, if the silence of trying to fall asleep the old fashioned way proves deafening.

Fans gathered two hours before kick-off to welcome the team bus, 55,000 tickets had been sold and the noise was deafening.

As the bombardment continues, it's the futility of it all that's so deafening.

I was woken at 4.30am by deafening cuckoos and the tractor rush hour, which starts early in these parts.

His father had not long died, his brother John had been jailed for kicking senseless a man who had suggested Sol was gay, he was at fault for two goals in a match against West Ham and the abuse was deafening.

A leader from the Inter-religious Council said that the EU should "respect the sovereign rights of other nations and desist from tying homosexuality to development aid," to deafening applause.

Yet, when free schools pulled the tiniest bit ahead of this, the celebratory roar within government was deafening.

The silence from the Lib Dems, who dined off Muslim votes in the aftermath of the Iraq war, has been deafening.

For all the Westminster grumbling, British political debate still leaves room for a moderate middle, and not just deafening partisans.

To deafening cheers, the event's first speaker, Denzel Washington, insists that in America now, "we are one".But even here there are the hints of division.

But in his capacity as wartime commander-in-chief, George Bush decided to ignore this requirement and set up his own secret "warrantless" eavesdropping programme.The outcry when this was revealed was deafening, and the programme was dropped.

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