1.   At first, I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear.

2.   He tried to close his ears to the plea.

3.   She wanted to close her ears to it.

4.   I closed my ears and tried to close my mind to what was happening.

5.   Caroline closed her ears to the conversation, not that she could understand the swift, musical Italian.

6.   Closed their ears and closed their eyes.

7.   He was just closing his ears, I would say.

8.   I refuse to listen to that insistence from on high, but I had to learn to close my ears to it.

9.   It is doubtless in character that she is being wooed by two handsome young men and closes her ears to both of them.