How to Use deaden in a Sentence

deaden

verb

• He took aspirin to deaden the pain.
• The new insulation will help to deaden the noise from the street outside.
• All the raw edges of pain dulled, deadened, drained away.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2020
• The barrage of facts and picayune contention deadened the room.
  — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
• In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Of course, there's a downside to that room and sound-deadening in the form of weight.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018
• Sometime ice was the only thing used to try to deaden the pain before the limbs were crushed.
  — Frances D'emilio, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
  — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 7 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, back in meatspace, the world burns on—one brain-deadening newsfeed at a time.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• Apparently, part of this comes from the foam around the ears, which is noise-deadening.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
• The only sure-fire way to deaden these coughs was using an opioid medicine.
  — Jeffrey E. Poehlmann, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
• And, apparently the years of loud music with Bon Jovi have deadened his hearing to the sound of MA.
  — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
• The tuning of these earphones also pushes back the mids, which deadens vocals and makes the sound feel veiled.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
• However, the airport does have a large wall at the north end of its property to deaden sound.
  — Martin E. Comas, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• In this soul-deadening freeze, who wouldn’t seek solace in a bottle?
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
• That’s also why the Marvel movies are, over all, deadening.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• That could be interpreted – as Verlander did – as a move to juice or deaden the ball at MLB's whim.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
• Perez's homer and an stingy bullpen helped deaden the blow starting pitcher Jason Hammel dealt the Royals.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 11 May 2018
• And so is the payoff — a huge building that enhances rather than deadens its surroundings.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• With each needle drop, Foley’s eyes deaden, as lifeless as the world outside.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 25 May 2022
• My only wish, which comes late at night, is for more sound-deadening material in the walls.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
• For Constellation to help in this setting, the Meyer team would first need to deaden the space as much as possible.
  — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
• Over the last three months, their lives had become deadened by the extreme constraints placed upon them and by a total lack of contact with the outside world.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• They were accused of storing baseballs in a humid room to deaden them and to help a Chicago team built on pitching and defense.
  — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
• The gray day poured in through the store’s glass front, deadening any touches of coziness in the strip mall space, which shares a bland Bismarck block with a Burger King.
  — Natasha Lennard, Esquire, 19 Sep. 2017
• The glum surroundings deaden some of the livelier songs and the sheer size of the set, with staircases on either end, means that the cast needs to take a rather long time to enter or exit the stage.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
• We are trained to be killing machines, deadening all emotion except anger.
  — Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2017
• To shake off the deadening sameness of life beyond the Orange (County) Curtain, Breedlove worked on his race car after hours at the fire station.
  — David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• With her back to the sideline shy of midfield, McNabb deadened the descending ball with her upper chest and poked the still-falling ball forward with her left foot.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
• But there’s a catch: such crystals may be destroying the world, believed by some to be the root cause of a blight that is quickly deadening the lands and throwing the abundance of kingdoms into war.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024