| So if there are no eardrums around to be vibrated, there is no sound, merely waves in the air. |
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| Cicadas start to shrill, building to a crescendo that threatens to rupture eardrums. |
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| His guitar is a gristly sandblast to the eardrums, buzzing over a keyed-up rhythm section, and the raw mix doesn't shave off the edges. |
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| For a start, we all believe he is stone-deaf, his eardrums melted long since. |
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| The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums. |
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| Last night in Braehead, everyone's eardrums took a battering from the raucous, but well behaved crowd which almost filled the arena. |
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| It was one of those moments when you wish you can puncture your eardrums with a sharp pointy object and go deaf. |
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| If hearing is affected, they may have drainage tubes, or grommets, placed in the eardrums. |
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| If this is not found, the GP will examine the eardrums through an illuminating instrument that is pushed gently into the ear canal. |
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| I woke up to the sounds of rolling thunder banging on my eardrums like some heavy metal band. |
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| He took a deep breath of contentment and then ducked in alarm as a jet fighter tried to remove his eardrums and his chimney pot. |
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| Music trucks pumping loud music into thousands of eardrums as people continued to make mas even in the dying sunlight. |
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| Anyone who values their sanity or eardrums still has time to flee the country. |
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| I could go on but all I seem to remember the adrenalized racket of guitars scraping my eardrums. |
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| The blood thrummed dully in her eardrums, echoing throughout the caverns and sending pain shooting to her skull. |
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| The loud music pounded against my eardrums and reverberated through my body, while the strobe and laser lights dazzled my violet eyes. |
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| Unfortunately, Ann's son Caspar flung an Army thunderflash into the confined space, injuring my eardrums. |
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| Get ready for a melodic, psychedelic stoner rock album that will strip your eardrums! |
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| The pitch, intonation, and speed of his voice are all over the map and make every bit of dialogue and catchphrase either hilarious or an assault on your eardrums. |
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| Not only is the glottal stop in the ascendancy in its former stamping-ground, but it is spreading eastwards to assault the tender eardrums of well-heeled Edinburghers. |
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| All students are accompanied by the instructor who has a firm grasp on them and on an anchor line to make sure they don't go up too fast and damage their eardrums. |
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| It penetrated through the houses, shaking the earth and pounding the eardrums of a garbled populace which had gradually grown accustomed to the noise. |
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| When diving, there is the risk of nitrogen narcosis, air embolisms, decompression sickness-bends, ruptured eardrums and drowning. |
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| Once in the air, the musical signal is traveling on its last trip before delicately tickling your eardrums. |
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| My eardrums still rang from the scolding when I continued with the experiments, though more cautiously in the garage. |
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| Now, recycling bins in parts of the capital are to be soundproofed to ensure the eardrums of the great and the good are not assaulted by the tinkle of breaking glass. |
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| The water pressure could have blown out my eardrums, but I equalised the pressure by swallowing. |
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| His upper body and half his face were badly burned, his hair gone and his eardrums ruptured. |
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| Frogs and birds have a space connecting their eardrums that works in a similar manner. |
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| However, it's best to avoid taking a baby less than one year old above 1,200 metres in altitude, as his eardrums are still too fragile. |
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| He could not hear well before because his eardrums were broken, but now could hear well. |
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| Misplaced or dodged blows that are intended to be light sometimes cause ruptured eardrums or falls. |
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| Domes should never be fitted on clients with perforated eardrums, exposed middle ear cavities, or surgically altered ear canals. |
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| This is what the autopsies of two dolphins with damaged eardrums seem to reveal. |
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| Many of the victims' eardrums have been perforated because of the noise. |
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| The ringing of the phone continued to burst through my eardrums noisily. |
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| I experimented with a homemade otoscope, the device doctors use to look into the ears, connected to a smartphone so I could take pictures of a family member's eardrums. |
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| For example, crickets have their eardrums on their legs, and fine tubes connect each eardrum internally to breathing holes on the sides of their bodies. |
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| Hearing instruments should not be fitted with domes for clients with perforated eardrums, inflamed ear canals, or otherwise exposed middle ear cavities. |
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| Microsurgery and other modern technological aids enable the specialist to replace the ear's deformed ossicles with implants and reconstruct perforated eardrums. |
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| Furthermore, the sudden absence of external pressure balancing the internal pressure of body fluids and gases would rupture fragile tissues such as eardrums and capillaries. |
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| To compensate, the eardrums of O. ochracea are connected by a structure similar to a teeter-totter, which amplifies the small differences in the arrival times of sounds and thus allows the insect to precisely locate its prey. |
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| It immediately stacks the deck in favor of belters, those types of singers who may have only a passing acquaintance with their song's melody but can burst eardrums. |
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| If this is not found, the GP will examine the eardrums through an illuminating instrument pushed gently into the ear canal. |
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| It may damage speakers of such devices and your eardrums. |
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| When she takes someone in her arms, she pierces their eardrums. |
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| It may damage the speaker of the device and may harm your eardrums. |
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| When they switch on the turbo on their guitars, they make no bones about explosing your eardrums, and when the music is enough, they don't bother to explain it in words. |
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| These drops should not be used if you have eczema or other skin conditions in your ear and should never be used if you have perforated eardrums or a tube in your ear. |
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| In addition to inspecting the nasal cavities using a headlamp and nose speculum, we also inspected the auditory canals and eardrums, the mouth, the epipharynx, and the larynx. |
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