1.  It was the deadening roar of the overhead helicopters that told me in no uncertain terms that there was a drowning.

2.  Most of the time it is anxiety, and then others it is steady euphoria, or else a deadening melancholy.

3.  Much of their animosity towards 'write once, run anywhere' is down to the deadening effect of Flash.

4.  My change in thinking arose from a frustration with the side effects of medications and the deadening effect they have on your normal feelings.

5.  Resuscitating the emancipatory project the left was once known for, these activists will attack the deadening commercialisation of life.

6.  Since nature provides diversity, this deadening sameness can be achieved only by brute force, by leveling, enforced assimilation, exile, genocide.

7.  Sound deadening materials also help to eliminate vibrations, which is a good thing when you install a powerful subwoofer in a custom enclosure.

8.  Stop turning something as magical, wonderful, and mysterious as music into a deadening slough of boring, dinky piano pieces accompanied by threats.

9.  That sounded deadening stuff always breaks up.

10.  The argumentation is precise, but deadening.