But my wife, Krinio, she's only a Christian, so you've become deaf and can't hear her!

Jack Ashley continued to serve as an MP for 25 years after becoming profoundly deaf.

Becoming Deaf culturally can occur at different times for different people, depending on the circumstances of one's life.

He was becoming more and more deaf.

The cousin slapped the dark girl and demanded to know whether she had become deaf and when she wanted to start to take her clothes off.

Mrs. Hirajima, for instance, has done more than just become deaf.

"Mamma's going to have a new name," she shouted, as if the lawyer had suddenly become deaf.

His attitude was that he had suddenly become deaf, dumb and blind.

For the last two years of his life he took little interest in business; he had become completely deaf and broken down by other physical infirmities.

It had become partially deaf; it had not heard him.