Sentence examples for dumb persons from inspiring English sources

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Gallaudet was the youngest of eight children born to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet who had helped found the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now called the American School for the Deaf), which was the first permanent American school for the deaf and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, a woman who had attended the institution.

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"I am not a dumb person.

It was as if a dumb person suddenly spoke.

"I don't think that Donald Trump is a dumb person, and only a dumb person would take those lines seriously," Mr. Spencer said.

The last really dumb person I've found reading Russian novels was a long way back.

The monster comes, it kills, there's a dumb person who runs to the monster, and one who lives to tell the tale.

The presenter was only able to stay at this morning's announcement for a few minutes as he was flying to LA to work on coverage of "the dumb person's Baftas", he added.

I figured it would take a seriously dumb person to do something offensive with Morgan sitting right there, but lo, here came the exit-only-lane zoomers, gunning it past the lineup and then cutting in.

Many have been peaceful, but Zanu-PF thugs, in an exercise known as Operation Chimumumu ("dumb person"), have been beating up and in a few cases killing suspected MDC supporters who disagree with a so-called Kariba draft favoured by Mr Mugabe.

This may be the movie's truest assessment of itself, unless that comes a bit later, when a character who seems to be Robert's ex-girlfriend tells him he's "about the most intelligent dumb person I've ever met".

We see two examples of such languaging in Fig. 5: "feku" (originating from the Hindi term "phekna", to throw) and "pappu" (a dumb person)—terms used here to describe the In prime-minister and the Congress party chief.

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