How to Use eardrum in a Sentence

eardrum

noun

• Its shock to the body is matched with a spiteful slap to the eardrum.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• The men knocked him unconscious and left him with a burst eardrum.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Benjamin Robson And, the bigger the hit, the more eardrum-splitting the bass.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 17 May 2018
• The boy had a tick attached to his eardrum, which was now inflamed.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 May 2019
• One person told me to turn my own sound up and blow out my eardrums.
  — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
• One time, she was hit so hard her eardrum ruptured and streamed blood.
  — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• When this happens, the vibrations bypass the eardrum, the part of the ear that evolved to pick up sound waves in the air.
  — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 27 June 2019
• The attack left Tyree with a broken draw and a ruptured eardrum.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
• With an impaction, ear wax ends up at the end of your ear canal and directly next to the eardrum.
  — Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
• The painful eardrum spasms were the result of the contractions of one or both of the middle ear muscles.
  — Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
• Brief, intense blasts emit high pressure waves that enter the ear and hit the eardrum.
  — Michael Ciaglo, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• Her eardrum hadn’t been punctured by the spider climbing around, the study notes.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Music began to blare through the speakers to our left, and my eardrums rang with the shrieks of other girls in the crowd.
  — Deena Elgenaidi, Longreads, 7 Jan. 2020
• The boy was taken to surgery, and doctors used a microscope and tiny hook to remove the tick from the boy's eardrum.
  — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 May 2019
• It’s full-throttle, piercing eardrums, headaches for the coaches at the end of practice.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
  — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• The device was designed to mimic the human body’s eardrum.
  — Janelle James, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2021
• Getting to give my mom that call and her blow my eardrum out with excitement.
  — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
• His sister, Jane, lost a leg, Denise lost an eye, and Bill suffered burns and a ruptured eardrum.
  — Martha Schick, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• In the case of one person, the root cause of a chronic bout of hiccups was a single hair brushing against their eardrum.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• The ear canal amplifies sound, then sends it towards your eardrum.
  — Brian Robinson, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• All of us had our mouths open to keep the blast overpressure from rupturing our eardrums.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
• Even the loudest images there won’t damage your eardrum.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• Changes in pressure might result in a ruptured eardrum.
  — Health Editorial Team, Health, 10 Nov. 2023
• Such infections can lead to a build up of fluid and debris behind the eardrum.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
• The deafening noise hit eardrums every time a plane exceeded the speed of sound.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• The officers left him with a fractured jaw and a burst eardrum, according to the lawsuit.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
• Sounds that loud can cause damage in less than a second, and are just shy of shattering your eardrum.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
• Like putting too much air in a balloon, this can rupture the eardrum and dislodge the tiny bones connecting it to the inner ear.
  — Michael Ciaglo, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• The cotton wool prevents any of the silicon mould mixture from hitting the eardrum, while the string enables the mould to be pulled out.
  — Mark Walton, Ars Technica, 18 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024