Parental purchase for a rock concert?

Usage examples of earplugs.

From his pocket he pulled out a couple of earplugs that he put in his ears.

Even with the earplugs, Kim was initially bowled over by the cacophony of noise that exploded into the stairwell.

With trembling fingers he plucked out one of the earplugs Jed had given him and pushed in the earphone.

Despite his earplugs, he suddenly could hear a sustained raucous buzz.

Christa fumbled for the earplugs, but the volume was only a small part of her distress: in this crowded hall, the packed adolescent energies crawled like hot spiders across her skin.

When she opened her eyes, even the sight of a demon face on the video screens was tolerable, and, muted by the earplugs, the steadily pulsing rock seemed oddly reassuring.

He looked for the set of earplugs that should have been attached to his seat, intending to drown out the play with music or a soothing waterfall of gentle noise, but found to his disgust that one plug of the set was missing.

A tinny, tiny sound, so faint that he could hear it only intermittently, leaked out into the room from the earplugs of her pocket hifi.

She sat up in her crackling cloak, and with the hand he had touched she reached up to pull her earplugs out.

The earplugs might or might not have been responsible for the fact that Diana slept through the night undisturbed.

He thought about his earplugs, over in the cabinet, but those worked too well for his peace of mind.

I made a note to purchase shin guards and earplugs, not to mention a tranquilizer or two, and a stun gun, should the crowd go wild.