Deadens Sentence Examples

deadens
  • The sawdust adapts it self to the rough shape of the concrete, and deadens the blow to some extent.

    2
    1
  • Although the term can refer to any drug that deadens sensation or produces stupor, it is commonly applied to the opioids-that is, to all natural or synthetic drugs that act like morphine.

    0
    0
  • One small species appears in immense numbers with the oncoming of the rainy season, and at night the noise of its outcry almost deadens other sounds.

    1
    1
  • At the bottom of the vertical leg from the goods-pan there is also a projecting piece which is attached to the top of a vertical piston rod, the piston of which plays in a dash-pot of glycerin as the beam sways, and deadens the vibrations of the index arm.

    0
    1
    Advertisement