The writer has grown pretty deaf - "In Spanish, you say 'sordo como una tapia.'

Fifteen years pass, and Goya is at the height of his creativity, but has grown deaf.

He had grown increasingly deaf to the voices of the coalition of southerners, royalists, and merchants who had brought bim to power.

Of course, Louis makes the same arguments now as he and so many others did then, but I have grown deaf to that point of view.

Perhaps he was growing deaf even faster than he had thought.

As we watched him grow gray and deaf and creaky, there was no ignoring his mortality-or ours.

In fact, I grow quite blind and deaf when I try to see my back.

Are you grown so deaf, chiliarch, that you didn't hear them too?

Auntie is growing increasingly deaf.

But in the recent mornings and evenings, Lydia, who was growing increasingly deaf and increasingly irritable, made it difficult for the expectant parents to keep smiling.