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Simple sentences
He turned a deaf ear to their complaints.
Deaf-mute people talk using sign language.
Deaf people can converse in sign language.
I am not deaf.
Tom is deaf in the left ear.
Are you deaf?
The poor child was born deaf and dumb.
Tom is deaf.
I may be blind, but I'm not deaf.
Are you deaf or mute?
Tom cannot understand you because he is deaf.
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.
Deaf people can talk in sign language.
He turns a deaf ear to me.
He turned a deaf ear to me.
He turned a deaf ear to my words.
He went deaf as a result of an accident.
He was deaf to my pleas.
She goes to a school for the deaf.
Koko knows and uses more than 500 words in sign language, the language of deaf people.
I don't want to sing, because I'm tone-deaf.
There were no schools for the deaf at that time.
She always turns a deaf ear to my advice.
She is deaf to my advice.
Movie subtitles
The doctors have just told us that he's deaf.
But God was deaf.
She's a little deaf.
In fact, sometimes quite deaf.
I'm a little deaf.
Is he a deaf mute, or only dumb?
You may be near-sighted, but you can't be deaf-and-dumb as well.
A deaf and dumb maiden.
I'm one-eyed and going deaf.
I understand she's deaf and dumb.
He said you were deaf and dumb.
My good fellow, do you imagine that we were both blind and deaf?
But stop it! Why did you not stop? are you deaf?
Whom are you kicking, you deaf devil?
Ain't deaf over there.
She's deaf.
I'm deaf.
Yes, I'm not deaf.
Who the devil are you? He said you were deaf and dumb.
Are you deaf?
He's deaf, the bells have made him so.
Deaf.maybe he's dumb, too.
Your Honor, the prisoner is deaf.
I'm. I'm deaf, you know.
I'm deaf, you know but you can speak to me by signs.
Why didn't you stop? Are you deaf?
I'd rather be deaf than blind, wouldn't you?
Professor. You're deaf, dumb and blind.
We also had an uncle, a deaf-mute.
The fatal vegetables had been picked by our deaf-mute. and that night, the house contained 11 corpses.
Are you deaf? I've been shouting myself silly.
Are you all deaf and blind?
Is he deaf?
This guy must be deaf!
You'll find that she's a little deaf.
Remain deaf and blind.
News and current affairs
Reared as part of a human family, he learned to use more than 100 signs from American Sign Language, the language used by Deaf Americans.
Obviously, the Chinese were politically tone-deaf in choosing an architect whose name carried such dark historical connotations.
In Afghanistan, Germany, with its strong military presence in the north, has been turning a deaf ear to calls for help from the Canadian allies fighting a revived Taliban in the south.
Japanese demands to reconsider fell on deaf ears, and the initiative was put on ice only when US congressmen threatened economic repercussions and China increased pressure on Taiwan.
Japan's leaders must recognize that the mindlessness with which they still treat the sensitivities of societies that suffered from Japanese imperialism in the twentieth century is as morally deaf as it is strategically damaging.
UN soldiers should not bear the consequence of America's failure to manage the occupation, so US cries for financial help should fall on deaf ears.
Her missionary zeal fell on deaf ears.
Their courageous calls fell on deaf ears; they now remain imprisoned.
One might characterize this as a dialogue of the deaf, except that most deaf people manage to communicate with each other quite well, through sign language and other means.
When they found that he was stone deaf to their threats, NATO was forced to raise the ante again, by actually bombing military targets in Yugoslavia.
Nor is there much crisis potential in Western Europe in a shootout between socialist governments and a near-deaf central bank.
A lot of technical advice falls on deaf ears, with countries listening only long enough to get their hands on Bank money.
Rouhani has been largely successful in putting his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tone-deaf leadership firmly in the past.
Too many economists are tone-deaf to such distinctions.
If politicians' behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists' advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.
I am frustrated by the impotence of my government in Mumbai and Delhi, tone-deaf to the anguish of my fellow citizens.
For example, many in the deaf community have rejected cochlear implants, because they do not regard deafness as a disability that needs to be corrected, but as a part of their life and cultural identity.
Yet, despite consistently demonstrating a commitment to democracy, the international community has been deaf to our appeals.
Unfortunately, the discussion between countries on trade nowadays is very much a dialogue of the deaf, with countries spouting platitudes at one another, but no enforceable and verifiable commitments agreed upon.
Experts' attempts to impress upon Americans how difficult Ebola is to transmit, and how unlikely an Ebola epidemic in the US was, fell largely on deaf ears.
Determined to carry on as they always have, no matter what, the governors turn a deaf ear to the IMF and resist instituting fiscal reforms.
But President Olosugun Obasanjo of Nigeria has, so far, turned a deaf ear to calls to surrender Taylor.