Very loud, needing a forte reassessed

Usage examples of deafening.

Jefferson fired, the blast deafening him, the backsplash of blood hot on his face and hands.

Overhead, the Bofors began an intermittent and deafening hack: two explosions every second.

Once, before the rain thickened to a deafening curtain that blotted The Dancing Cartman from sight.

A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts.

I was awakened with a start by cries of alarm, and scarce were my eyes opened, nor had I yet sufficiently collected my wits to quite realize where I was, when a fusillade of shots rang out, reverberating through the subterranean corridors in a series of deafening echoes.

It seems that the great lightning flash and deafening explosion which followed the Federal Hill occurrence were even more tremendous farther east, where a burst of the singular foetor was likewise noticed.

The blast of the Marlin was deafening in the confines of the tunnel, and Geronimo was aware of a ringing in his ears as he levered his second round into the chamber.

The next two inns had musicians as well, and the same deafening cacophony.

All the riders had saddled fresh horses, and the first half of the group was eating the beefsteaks Jiggers had prepared for them when lightning lit up the area, followed by a deafening roll of thunder.

Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men- the Emperors.

How it contrasts with hot and perspiring pedestrianism, and dusty and deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads!

The noise became deafening and stones clattered against the windshield and body work as the Previa rocked under the downwash from the rotor blades.

He rolled up the window to avoid the dust storm that arrived along with the deafening blast of an air horn as the tractor-trailer loaded with sawlogs went speeding by.

As it died, the shoveler let out a massive scream, pumped through its head crest, reverberating, the sound almost deafening Galpook.

The pounding of shoveler feet and their deafening calls were enough to break a few of the Quintaglios out of the blood rage.