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Deafening
"Deafening" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
He gave a deafening cry.
The noise is deafening.
The roar of the heavy guns was deafening.
The noise was deafening.
With a deafening roar, the rocket was hurled into space.
The noise is becoming deafening.
The silence was deafening.
The cheers were deafening.
The silence is deafening.
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But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
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