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Example sentences for: numbness

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

The scale of crimes against humanity, against truth, against common sense engaged in by Stalin and his minions is so extraordinary that merely reading about them can provoke numbness.
Patients tend to describe neuropathic pain with words like burning, tingling, numbness, shooting, stabbing, or electric-like feelings.
Didion has always been an expert on coolness, numbness, in hot climates.
An entirely innocent passage from Henry James (reprinted for us to judge for ourselves) prompts this from Sedgwick: "[The text] shows how in James a greater self-knowledge and a greater acceptance and specificity of homosexual desire transform this half-conscious enforcing rhetoric of anality, numbness, and silence into a much richer, pregnant address to James's male muse, an invocation to fisting-as-écriture."