Example sentences for: numb

How can you use “numb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We hear the numbers—the millions upon millions infected—and we grow numb.

  • This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old "Letters from Europe" that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambivalent people--begins to take shape.

  • One respondent claimed that pot bush ( Ottonia ovata ) gave his dog a headache (it shook its head continuously and there is no sign of anything in its ear), and it made two respondent's tongues numb.

  • If you look up a disorder in the DSM , you will find that it's defined by a list of problems (such as impaired motor activity, or feeling numb and empty), a certain number of which qualify a person as having the disease.

  • Are we made impervious by a shell of arrogance, numb by self-satisfaction, or tolerant by the wild ethnic diversity in which most of us live?


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