English example sentences with "deaf"

Learn how to use deaf in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.

Helen Keller was deaf and blind.

Beethoven was deaf in his late years.

The mayor of this city was blamed for turning a deaf ear to the people's requests.

Koko knows and uses more than 500 words in sign language, the language of deaf people.

Deaf people can talk in sign language.

He was deaf, too.

There are none so deaf as those who won't hear.

My grandmother is hard of hearing. In other words she is slightly deaf.

There were no schools for the deaf at that time.

He was deaf to all arguments.

He turned a deaf ear to my advice.

He turns a deaf ear to me.

He turned a deaf ear to me.

He turned a deaf ear to my words.

He turned a deaf ear to my request.

He went deaf as a result of an accident.

He turned a deaf ear to their complaints.

He turned a deaf ear to their request.

He was deaf to my pleas.

She always turns a deaf ear to my advice.

She turns a deaf ear to her father.

She became deaf from the explosion.

She is deaf to my advice.

She goes to a school for the deaf.

My father was deaf to our opinions.

He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.

Deaf people can converse in sign language.

Snakes are -to a certain extent- deaf, but can still hear very low sounds and are very sensitive to smells.

There's no one more deaf than he who does not want to listen.

She was blind, deaf, and dumb.

The woman is almost deaf.

It is a dialogue of the deaf.

Wisdom is necessary to understand wisdom: music does not exist to a deaf audience.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I am not deaf.

Would you rather be blind or be deaf?

Tom is deaf in the left ear.

Tom is deaf in one ear.

Are you deaf?

How can rattlesnakes localise their prey and track it through grass and bushes, after they wound it, if they're fully deaf?

Some deaf people choose not to use sign language.

Deaf people often talk to each other using sign language.

He pretends to be deaf.

Not a drop more or a drop less of His blood was for a white man or black man, a male or female, old or young, retarded, crippled, blind, deaf, dumb or precious baby in the womb.

He is deaf, but knows how to read lips.

When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.

When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.

Cats that are completely white with blue eyes are always, or nearly always, deaf.

She is completely deaf in her left ear.

I'm not deaf.

Better to be deaf than to hear that.

He thinks he's becoming deaf because he doesn't hear people talking about him anymore.

He goes to a school for the deaf.

I cannot hear anything. I'm deaf.

Helen Keller was blind, deaf, and dumb.

Tom's deaf.

Friendliness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

Tom is also deaf.

The poor child was born deaf and dumb.

I'm completely deaf.

You know very well that they don't want to, and won't, listen to you. Why preach to deaf ears?

Are you deaf or stupid?

Paralysed and yet walking, blind and yet standing, deaf and yet hearing, that is a person who is grieving.

Princess Alice of Greece was deaf and could lip-read in three languages.

I must be going deaf.

Tom is deaf.

Tom is deaf and mute.

Does your wig make you deaf?

His hearing is very bad, he is almost deaf.

Tom is beginning to go deaf.

Are you deaf or what?

He became deaf ringing the bells.

Tom is going deaf.

Tom is completely deaf in his right ear.

Tom is deaf, but he knows how to read lips.

She was also deaf.

He was also deaf.

Tom is as deaf as a post.

In a happy marriage, the woman is a little blind and the man is a little deaf.

You're the one who's tone deaf.

He preaches to deaf ears.

His words fall on deaf ears.

Tom wondered what it would be like to be deaf.

Geez! Are you deaf?

Tom pretended to be deaf.

She was blind, deaf, and mute.

Tom became frustrated when his suggestions fell on deaf ears.

Are you deaf or something?

He's blind, deaf and mute.

She's deaf and mute, and is getting blind, too.

What's it like to be deaf?

I'm deaf and mute while I'm eating.

Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute.

I can't remember if Tom works with the deaf or the blind.

No schools for the deaf existed in that era.

Both children are deaf.

Tom is tone deaf.

Tom says he's tone deaf.

Many Deaf people dislike being thought of as "disabled".

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