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Example sentences for "dumb"

Lexicographically close words:
dully; dulness; dulse; duly; dum; dumbbell; dumbbells; dumbe; dumbed; dumber
  1. DAYS Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

  2. Nature, the supplement of man, His hidden sense interpret can;-- What friend to friend cannot convey Shall the dumb bird instructed say.

  3. I hide in the solar glory, I am dumb in the pealing song, I rest on the pitch of the torrent, In slumber I am strong.

  4. Whilst he spoke these words a dark light beamed on his face, his eyes seemed to flash fire; beneath him knelt the poor girl, who had flown to him for protection, around him scowled the brigands, struck dumb at this sudden rebellion.

  5. That dumb animal knows well his lord is dying, and with wistful glance watches his every movement.

  6. There is no doubt that this ill-adjusted function consumes quite unnecessarily vast stores of vital energy, even when we contemplate it in its immature manifestations which are infinitely more wholesome than the dumb swamping process.

  7. When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England.

  8. The vital part of the population has pretty well emerged from any dumb acquiescence in constitutions.

  9. The world has been slow to recognize the work of the Socialist Party in transmuting a dumb muttering into a civilized program.

  10. The dumb demoniac could lift no cry, nor exercise any faith, and all the petitions and hopes of his bearers were expressed in the act of bringing the sufferer thither, and silently setting him there before these eyes of universal pity.

  11. The Incarnate Word was dumb all the while.

  12. It is ever possible that dumb lips may be opened to welcome Him, though long rejected; and His withdrawals are His efforts to bring about that opening.

  13. When Jesus was about to cure one dumb man, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and sighed.

  14. Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

  15. The dumb man is not said to have used his recovered speech to thank his deliverer, nor is there any sign that he clung to Him, either for fear of being captured again or in passionate gratitude.

  16. Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

  17. He settled himself in his chair for one of his interminable stories; he began his opening sentence--and stopped, struck dumb at the first word.

  18. He stood perfectly still on the spot where they had struck him dumb by the disclosure, supporting himself with his right hand laid on the head of a sofa near him.

  19. I had many die with me before; but not like that--not such a massacre as that; and I stood dumb before the sight.

  20. All the characters troop slowly upstairs, talking in dumb show.

  21. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?

  22. T is a room deaf and dumb mid the city's uproar.

  23. Linnet gazed at him, dumb with awe, surprise, and amazement.

  24. Our sympathy for or hostility to Russia is determined by our opinion of the Russian bureaucracy, and we never spare a thought for the hopes and fears and the dumb but ardent beliefs of millions of Russian peasants.

  25. I examined the urns on the well, tried a locked door or two, and looked up and down the dumb façade; then I faced about toward the chapel.

  26. But he was now suddenly at a loss; the words would not come; his torment fell dumb before her; in her presence the cause was unspeakable.

  27. She met his gaze with one of dumb bewilderment.

  28. His jolly drum was dumb and sleeping, and he had thrust the drumsticks into the mouth of his satchel.

  29. And through them, the Inquisition Will wake again in high triumph, And new Titelmans Will arrest the deaf and dumb For heresy.

  30. He taught his sons to be skilful in the chase, but also to be kind to the dumb creatures when captured.

  31. He then let them all go free, and was happy to see the dumb brutes frisking together.

  32. She tilted down the spout, made from the leg-end of a dumb brute beast, and carefully poured some clear water into an unglazed, shallow clay bowl.

  33. Then, she finished her statement as her sticks worked almost in a blur; 'Shall I bow my living face down and eat of the dust that not only covers all things but also collects upon their dumb wooden heads?

  34. Ampho remained frozen, as if he were no more than a dumb idol himself.

  35. No, she was somehow subhuman to them now, and it was only fitting that she should never speak again, but be as some dumb animal instead.

  36. Raising his eyebrows in frustration, Emperor Euphrates looked up at the throng and proclaimed, "Is this child a deaf and dumb mute?

  37. But when the real Habrunt comes, why talk to dumb clay?

  38. Sometimes the surest way Si'Wren had of knowing the Invisible God to be the true God was by reflecting upon how foolish it was to think of worshiping dumb idols.

  39. But the memory of Habrunt's stern warnings left his behavior so impeccably holy as to rival the sanctity of the dumb idols themselves.

  40. There they all were, kneeling and bowing to the dumb wooden ox!

  41. Whenever Master Rababull would chance to pass by, he would nod and beam and smile at her, filling Si'Wren's day with consternation and no little dismay that she should feel so dumb about everything.

  42. Against such, mere empty words were but as the ring of brass or a sounding cymbal, dumb bells all, and the clink of the condemned slave's heavy chains.

  43. Here was another weight of chain to drag, and poor Lydgate was in a bad mood for bearing her dumb mastery.

  44. Hearing him breathe quickly after he had spoken, she sat listening, frightened, wretched--with a dumb inward cry for help to bear this nightmare of a life in which every energy was arrested by dread.

  45. Richard was struck dumb with indignation--and remained dumb from the feeling that he could not condescend to answer her as she deserved.

  46. To all dumb suffering things, she was very gentle and pitiful; but her pity was like that of a child over her doll.

  47. He was, therefore, struck dumb with amazement at the exorbitant amount named.

  48. For some minutes, Rodin had been biting his nails to the quick, as was his custom when seized with a fit of dumb and concentrated rage.

  49. Emotionally inarticulate even in happiness, Mary was quite dumb in grief.

  50. The boy's eyes were fixed in dumb devotion on his father's face.

  51. I'm struck dumb with his vivacity, and stunned with the loudness of his laugh.

  52. The Romanticists had lost all sense of the dumb silent life of nature.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dumb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animal; apish; asinine; awkward; backward; batty; beastly; beguiled; besotted; bestial; blockish; bovine; brainless; breathless; brief; brusque; brutal; brute; callow; close; cluck; cockeyed; concise; crass; crazy; credulous; curt; daft; dazed; dense; dizzy; doltish; doting; dull; dumb; dumbfounded; dunce; empty; fat; fatuous; featherweight; flaky; fond; fool; foolish; fuddled; futile; gauche; green; groping; gross; idiotic; ignorant; imbecile; inane; inanimate; inarticulate; inept; inert; inexperienced; infatuated; innocent; insane; insensate; insensible; insentient; instinctive; laconic; lifeless; loony; lumpish; mad; maudlin; mindless; mute; naive; nonsensical; nutty; opaque; quiet; raw; sappy; screwy; senseless; sentimental; short; silence; silent; silly; simple; slow; snug; sottish; soulless; speechless; stolid; stupid; taciturn; tentative; terse; thick; thoughtless; uncomprehending; unconscious; unenlightened; unfamiliar; unfeeling; unilluminated; uninformed; uninitiated; unintelligent; unknowing; unripe; unsure; unteachable; unversed; vacuous; voiceless; wet; witless; wordless; wrongheaded; zoological


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dumb animals; dumb show