How to Use eardrum in a Sentence

eardrum

noun
  • This deal saves both your bank account and your eardrums.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Its shock to the body is matched with a spiteful slap to the eardrum.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
  • One time, she was hit so hard her eardrum ruptured and streamed blood.
    — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • One person told me to turn my own sound up and blow out my eardrums.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The men knocked him unconscious and left him with a burst eardrum.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The boy had a tick attached to his eardrum, which was now inflamed.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 May 2019
  • Getting to give my mom that call and her blow my eardrum out with excitement.
    — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
    — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Sound waves traveling through your ear canal cause your eardrum to vibrate.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The ear canal amplifies sound, then sends it towards your eardrum.
    — Brian Robinson, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Brief, intense blasts emit high pressure waves that enter the ear and hit the eardrum.
    — Michael Ciaglo, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
  • Breaths pant, pant, pant, pushing past my earbuds and into my eardrums.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Her eardrum hadn’t been punctured by the spider climbing around, the study notes.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This causes the eardrum, a thin, pliable membrane, to stretch.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
  • With an impaction, ear wax ends up at the end of your ear canal and directly next to the eardrum.
    — Madeleine Burry, Health, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The attack left Tyree with a broken draw and a ruptured eardrum.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
  • With his experiment, a sheet of plastic wrap acts like an eardrum.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2022
  • All of us had our mouths open to keep the blast overpressure from rupturing our eardrums.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • The rotating blades create a low pressure zone that can cause the bats’ eardrums and lungs to burst.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Sounds that loud can cause damage in less than a second, and are just shy of shattering your eardrum.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2017
  • Such infections can lead to a build up of fluid and debris behind the eardrum.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The deafening noise hit eardrums every time a plane exceeded the speed of sound.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • The painful eardrum spasms were the result of the contractions of one or both of the middle ear muscles.
    — Christopher Linstrom, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2011
  • Music began to blare through the speakers to our left, and my eardrums rang with the shrieks of other girls in the crowd.
    — Deena Elgenaidi, Longreads, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In an extreme case, the pressure could lead to a perforated eardrum.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, 18 Aug. 2018
  • When this happens, the vibrations bypass the eardrum, the part of the ear that evolved to pick up sound waves in the air.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 27 June 2019
  • The boy was taken to surgery, and doctors used a microscope and tiny hook to remove the tick from the boy's eardrum.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 3 May 2019
  • In the case of one person, the root cause of a chronic bout of hiccups was a single hair brushing against their eardrum.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The wrestler reportedly suffered a busted eardrum and a black eye at the hands of the rapper.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Enjoy some good music without the risk of damaging your eardrums or getting dust up your nose.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026

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