Use "numb" in a sentence
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1. I sat there, numb and stupefied as my guard bolted the door
2. Despite the warmth of my feelings for The Kid I started to become emotionally numb, existing only when the wavelength of light changed or my nerves pinched my soul under Smiler’s latest onslaught
3. Numb now, I gazed at the silent television screen, watching black and white figures move through a scene of domestic strife, unable for the moment to comprehend what a lawnmower might be used for
4. I felt my feet becoming numb as the tape bit into my ankles, and slowly that numbness spread, rolling inexorably up my calves and into my thighs
5. His feet had been numb for hours but he suddenly knew there was not as much weight on his hips
6. He went numb thinking of it
7. Numb to the core, I recall tears streaming down my face, but can only remember snapshots …
8. Next morning when I woke, my mind was numb
9. I wasn't even scared anymore, I was numb
10. completely numb, as was the left side of her face
11. Having a Heart-Wall left her feeling numb and
12. The ambulance man has wrapped her in a blanket but she feels numb and slow
13. He feels wired, on caffeine overload, but it is better than the void, better than the numb impotence that curls around the edges of his world
14. Sleeping in the boat had left him numb, in spite of all the cloth he had
15. legs felt numb as he walked to the bathroom
16. When she does turn up, it is with a numb face
17. Sliding down the door, in an attempt to cover her numb legs, she replayed the scene they had just witnessed
18. Abuse temporarily help numb feelings; help one escape from the memories and the pain
19. comfort of the car – our fingers and noses numb and
20. There he sat quite numb and motionless; one would have imagined he was frozen to death
21. But he sat quite still, numb and cold
22. face were numb with cold, and he sank up to his knees in
23. He watched, numb, his mind no longer acknowledging his senses, blind to his environment and the events unfolding around him
24. face and hands numb with the cold
25. the bridge, numb with shock and oblivious to everything
26. Nerissa stared at the blade in her numb hand
27. To be unattached does not mean you lack motivation or are numb to the world around you
28. I felt numb
29. The angle of the cliff was more in his favour until the overhang, but his strained arm was beginning to weaken and the cold was starting to numb his fingers
30. No longer the illusion of a body, just a numb floaty feeling
31. I was carried inside and laid on to a table there was very little anaesthetic on the peninsular and so I was given rum for the pain and to numb me against what was coming
32. “Ah back in the land of the living are we how are you feeling?” To tell the truth I didn’t really know how I felt at the moment a little numb and more than a little sore but the pain had not really started again yet then I managed to croak
33. Reducing it to only a numb ache
34. I just felt so numb
35. He added his words of sympathy but I didn’t see these as the tears streamed down my cheeks I felt numb and couldn’t really believe it would my nightmare never end?
36. Her clothes were soaking wet and her backside was numb with cold
37. Legs so numb she could hardly move, she stumbled to Wholt’s prone form
38. The letter fluttered to the floor from her numb fingers
39. His shoulder felt numb and he was having difficulty moving his right arm, but he kicked out with his flippers, keeping his head above the waves, slowly fighting his way towards shore, wishing he’d used his air-tank, instead of just a face mask
40. Li gave me a tour of the office and showed me where I would be working, I was not moved to be excited or eager to start, I simply felt numb
41. He stared at the floor again, numb
42. Adriano’s body felt numb, and he was aware that martial arts would be no
43. Dr Preston left and I sat numb and confused, frozen in my chair
44. I knew the time had been steadily approaching but still I felt numb and wished, oh how I wished, that the burden would be taken away from me
45. That was how I spent the next two hours, sitting in the chair numb, frozen and so afraid of the future
46. Too open in some ways, because what Marcia had shared had shaken Karla to her very core - leaving her cold and numb
47. He sat perfectly still after the message had ended, unheeding of the bleep that indicated a further message waited, his mind numb
48. My left hand was totally numb, and I wondered if I would be able to get my boots off
49. The pain had subsided, and I was only feeling a bit numb where the bullets had hit
50. He’d been numb with fear and unable to think when he’d spilled his guts to Vargas, and the seesaw of emotions between terror and resignation had only gotten worse since
1. “Oh,” I said, numbed by her deadpan presentation, and I turned away from her
2. He was numbed already and was only about halfway on his traverse of the north side of the city to the address where Tdeshi lived
3. pulling a face as the iciness numbed his cheeks and
4. Numbed, that is what they call it, I was
5. But instead, words became lost in the light wind, numbed in the chill of nightfall
6. As it was, she’d made little progress, because the vines were very tough and something toxic in them numbed her lips
7. sitting had numbed their brains and let their physical condition
8. Their eyes were numbed to the expression of staring they'd adopted nearly exclusively over the last of this day's events
9. After a while you seem to get used to the whizzing and buzzing of the pieces of white hot metal don’t get me wrong you are still scared and shitting yourself but your senses seem to get numbed and you seem to get a couldn’t care less attitude
10. All was silent to him, the world shocked into a numbed stillness
11. A block pressed against her shoulder and numbed her arm
12. Lost in thought and numbed by fatigue, Hilderich bumped unwillingly onto Amonas who seemed to have suddenly stopped
13. Numbed, I went through the motions of baking the cookies traditional to my family at Christmas time
14. ears, and his body was numbed beyond control
15. faded to nothing more than a numbed echo, as if it was all a
16. His legs had knotted as he fell, numbed
17. frustration, numbed by boredom and the painkilling chemicals
18. Numbed, I stare at the Coptic cross hanging on the wall
19. My numbed mind is shutting out much of the environment
20. I finished eating and they gave me painkillers that numbed the throbbing soreness, but I felt even better when I saw Carmen come in the room
21. Talia tried to speak his name, but her mouth seemed numbed, and she could not bring herself to speak
22. I didn’t believe I could for the first year because I was just numbed to giving my heart to another but in walked you and I began to heed Toni’s words about not being afraid of showing my love because only then will I be showing God’s love
23. I didn’t think anyone could voluntarily submit to such pain, and she would not reduce it further, saying she had no wish to be numbed
24. I remember that my face numbed with this last sentence,
25. I am numbed
26. had numbed over time but had woken from it's slumber and
27. He remained numbed by deep grief, first the tragic death of his mentor, the unnerving interrogation by Parker, and finally the murder of his wife
28. But best of all, the mind racking pain was now numbed by the ring’s magic
29. It numbed my cuts and bruises, even seemed to cover the harshness of the world, giving me a glimpse of how I wished life could be
30. He returned to the throne room numbed with shock
31. Wriggling to a better position, and with a trickle of hope, I tore off the tape, extracted my gag and tried to drag numbed legs in to join the rest of me
32. and you’re numbed by his wrath,
33. had been in the syringe, but whatever it was, numbed the pain
34. Lance slumped in his chair, too stunned to cry, too numbed to speak, too miserable to think
35. The drink and smoke gradually removed the extremely ragged edge from his mixed-up feelings, leaving him numbed and feeling totally betrayed
36. He thought of saying a prayer, but he had too much anger in him and was numbed
37. The man reeled back, clutching the numbed member, his eyes clouding
38. Ferocious triumph surged through Conan's numbed brain
39. And as he gripped it he felt new strength flood his numbed limbs; the will to live was a pulsing white-hot fire, matched by the intensity of his burning rage
40. Elise‘s conscious awareness reclaimed her numbed body like a rising tide with the only sounds to penetrate her psyche of a primal nature: Chirping birds
41. At the office he moved as though through a thick fog, a fog which numbed
42. WITH NUMBED FEET, OVER NEEDLES, PINS AND HOT SCORCHING COALS
43. The pie pan had cooled, but it was still hot enough that her fingers had numbed under its blistering heat, but she did not feel the pain of her fingers
44. Bang! Her right leg numbed from the impact
45. The left side of her hearing numbed for a few seconds
46. Gary sat and said nothing; clenching the arms of the chair tighter and tighter until his fingers numbed from lack of circulation
47. In a numbed daze he shook his head
48. But now, confronting her mother again across the kitchen table, with what Jimmy had thrown at her crouching like a serpent in her brain, she was numbed
49. He sat leaning over with elbows on knees, taking several deep breaths to regain his numbed composure, after the freak occurrence
50. Apparently numbed to tragedy by the reality of confronting it daily, most of the staff
1. She sat almost panting, the terrible numbing mist in her head clearing a little
2. and the slow numbing of fingers sharpens
3. Outside, in the bleak, bottom numbing reality of the concrete
4. It was so numbing in its infinitude
5. Was this Tdeshi without her family and close friends? Was this Tdeshi alone in this numbing expanse of city, on a Nightday it looked like? She was feeling like all eyes were on her
6. The cold was numbing with the wind while he had his darkmeal of dried fruit stuffed with vedn kernels
7. its effects first numbing his fingers and toes and then immobilizing his limbs
8. through dissociation or emotional numbing
9. Our nervous systems are constantly reacting to a barrage of texts , facebooks , e mails, frenzied traffic and numbing schedules
10. When the young man awakens there is the numbing pain in his shoulder and head to greet him
11. A cold numbing sensation followed, then he felt drowsy
12. The fact of the matter was that I was bone weary with a tiredness that was numbing and apathetic
13. Instantly she was hit with a mind numbing pain in her stomach, and she doubled over, clutching at her middle
14. But the young badger had also found a soothing comfort in these numbing patterns of behaviour
15. Striking upwards, his muscles straining with the effort, Thesa reached the surface, gasping for breath, the numbing coldness of the water sucking the air from his lungs and stinging his eyes
16. I tried using the table as something to use as a standing aid, and did so with moderate success, while the pain receded with each passing moment, turning into a numbing sensation
17. Though if I were you I would have kept my mouth and ears shut, unable to fathom or understand a single moment of the numbing madness around me
18. “I’m going to have to give you a shot of this numbing agent,” she says, holding up a syringe
19. She dabs my forehead with antiseptic—they are so careful about germs here—and I feel the sting and prickle of the needle, diminishing by the second as the numbing agent does its work
20. “A trying few days has given me a mind numbing headache
21. seeing her face in his dreams did little to ease the numbing loss
22. As the numbing cold and painful lashing of the water drained the strength from those who tried to fight it, a great stillness overtook Virginia
23. They had felt this shadow before, this creeping, numbing fear
24. bed and guzzled the mind numbing liquid
25. from this altitude could give a mind numbing
26. So much so, that it will probably not be possible to block the pain completely without numbing you to all other sensation as well
27. Not in audible words but more of a pulling that seduced the mind, numbing you to all thought and reason, till your only desire was to know what that thing was
28. Another tear fell as she tried to fight through the numbing pain and speak, “Yes
29. His expression of concern was unnerving but his caresses were numbing the anxiety in her mind
30. Sutton took a hard spear strike on his shoulder, not penetrating his mail but temporarily numbing his sword arm
31. The plant was valued for its medicinal uses in numbing pain
32. The cervix was exposed with a speculum and I usually anesthetize the biopsy area with the injection of a small amount of local numbing medicine, much like a dentist would before working on teeth
33. The numbing power of its voice seemed directed somewhere else
34. The minutes passed and I saw no signs that the numbing tea was doing its work
35. Suddenly a whine and the diesel generator clanked into life numbing the senses with it‘s dull thud
36. Only once had the numbing fear returned
37. what ridiculous if it weren’t for the mind numbing fear
38. 'Salome!' Taramis breathed the word, and the hairs prickled on her scalp as she realized the incredible, numbing truth of the statement
39. They did not reply; they sat staring at him, assailed by a numbing realization of the truth of his assertion
40. Is it better to use a gum numbing ointment
41. experienced a calming, numbing sensation, a safety from the storm
42. " Exhaling, Mitchell could taste the numbing chemical again infiltrate his mouth and throat
43. numbing effect on his mind and body as he watched a young couple,
44. arousing effect on him, numbing his mind that was still hazy from
45. It took a few minutes of avid conversation for another skein of the web of coincidence to be unravelled; a few numbing minutes which left each man speechless and surprised by the other’s involvement
46. The impact hurts like hell, and there would be bruises and numbing, but she is still alive
47. He shook his head, the whole unbelievable scope of the project numbing him to silence
48. He mentally probed his body looking for sensation, but it was all a black hole of nothing, like what his jaw had felt liked when he was having a tooth replanted and the doctor had administered a numbing agent
49. This numbing experience was worse,
50. He was cold and fearfully tired, gasping for breath in the thin air, a numbing sensation clawing up his legs, his feet faltering
1. You take the line, the powder numbs your face and lips, you feel the drip on the back of your throat cooling till there is nothing in its place
2. numbs our minds at the beginning of a pain this terribly great to keep us
3. what numbs all the hearts
4. The hearty laugh of the fat glutton, pleased in his overfilled belly that numbs all other sensations
5. Usually done under local anesthesia, it completely numbs any sensation in the bottom and one stays awake during the operation
