Example sentences for: numbing

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

  • Aside from an absurd premise that "most TV medical dramas would wrap up in 20 minutes" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ), the film is riddled with overwrought hospital scenes and numbing car chases--"clichés that mount like fallen bricks" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ).

  • (The other is Vija Celmins, who paints numbing, meticulous copies of nature photographs.)

  • He ends up embodying only the movie's numbing obviousness.

  • I did have the pleasure of interviewing Thomas in the past, and the memory of his smile is what's haunting me today--that smile, and the mischievous light that always shone in Thomas' eyes even though he had to deal with another numbing tragedy before this.

  • West is blunt about what he calls black "nihilism"--what he defines as "a numbing detachment from others and a self-destructive disposition toward the world."


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