TWO years ago, Saturn's first utility wagon made its debut to polite but hardly deafening applause.

Sure, Paradox for Windows has just shipped to deafening applause.

The sermon was greeted with deafening applause.

It's very difficult to come here," he said, sitting beside the women, who had entered the hall to a standing ovation and deafening applause.

Katie's voice is drowned out as the crowd surges forward and erupts in deafening applause.

The chamber broke into deafening applause, and Seneca, off to one side, beamed his approval.

Bacco stepped back from the lectern as the chamber shook with deafening applause.

Then, turning on his heel, he retraced his steps to the engineering table-amid still another round of deafening applause.

"But his demands that parents take responsibility for their children brought foot-stomping agreement and deafening applause," The Chicago Tribune reported.

There is deafening applause when the host, Bob Barker himself, steps into the spotlight and says a few words before the taping.