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Example sentences for "numb"

Lexicographically close words:
nullo; nullos; nullum; nullus; num; numba; numbed; number; numbered; numberest
  1. Again I faced that terrible old sorrow; Too numb to weep, too cowardly to pray.

  2. I am numb and cold, but the lie is told, I smile and my lord is bland.

  3. For my restless heart Is numb to sorrow, or to pleasure's touch.

  4. She watched them eagerly, she smiled at them faintly and sweetly, but so numb were her reasoning faculties that she did not wonder at their presence there.

  5. Would the rushing tide of life ever flow through those numb veins again?

  6. I walked on," she continued, "until my feet and hands were numb with cold.

  7. Henry Rayne raised his head, rubbed his eyes, and tried to stretch his limbs, now numb with the damp dullness of the night.

  8. Instead of lighting the fire he was hurled several feet away, and righted himself with a numb feeling in his arm and only the pistol stock in his hand.

  9. Boyton, "You become chilly and have a numb feeling all over.

  10. As Paul and Creelman had paddled all night without stopping, the approach of the second night found them weary and numb with cold.

  11. There was a stove near him and he put his numb hands out to the heat while he asked for Philip.

  12. He hailed her from the dock, sheltering his numb body behind a pile of cord-wood, while he waited for the master to answer him.

  13. In the morning when he woke he was quite numb with cold, and faint with hunger.

  14. At length worn out, and as it were all numb with his loss, Mr. Tebrick got up and went within doors, leaving his dear fox lying near where she had fallen.

  15. This had to be endured, and in time Amber's senses grew numb to the racket and he dropped off into a fitful doze.

  16. He stepped back in his surprise, his right hand seeking instinctively the wrist of his left, which was numb with pain.

  17. And yet he became sensible that it was tugging at his own, and he yielded to its persuasion, permitting himself to be led on for so long a journey that his fingers clasping the little hand grew numb with cold ere it was over.

  18. It eased the wound, too, and put new strength in his heart so that he could feel the warm blood seeping slowly into his numb arms and hands and fingers.

  19. His hands numb from excitement, VB forced his arms against it, shoving stoutly.

  20. The roar of the water was deafening, seeming to numb the senses.

  21. Her limbs were so numb she could not stand.

  22. Then he subsided into a numb endurance till what time his prayers should be answered.

  23. Weak, shaking, sated with horror and numb with fear, Masanath attempted to return to her apartments, but at the second step she reeled.

  24. It drove the suspender-man into the hallway of a Suffolk Street tenement, where he tried to pluck the icicles from his frozen ears and beard with numb and powerless fingers.

  25. Numb fatigue had shaken it off like the parting soul shakes off flesh.

  26. Brunner was one of the last to exit, feeling numb and at the same time torn to pieces.

  27. His wife turned his numb and again lifeless form toward her, and with tears in her eyes, said words that almost made it through to his mind.

  28. Through the numb slowness of his near-frozen body a heart beat that carried no blood.

  29. But the weight on his numb legs did not lessen.

  30. He beat his numb legs and shook himself like a savage dog.

  31. They were dry-eyed now but white and numb with shock.

  32. He turned the pages of the album with numb fingers.

  33. He screwed back his head and looked down and there it was, lying on the numb knees of him, buckled to him by the tough strap of pigskin that held him in his seat.

  34. The numb hand feebly made the Sacred Sign, and the tension passed with the terror.

  35. Clumsily, as though by a blunt knife wielded by a numb hand--it had been hacked through, and the satchel scratched badly in the process.

  36. The change of position was a rest, in a measure, although the tight wrist cords kept Matt's arms numb clear to his shoulders.

  37. Matt's limbs, bruised and sore from the fall out of the aƫroplane, felt numb from the bonds.

  38. You have walked too far," was his sole answer, "and you are numb with cold.

  39. And her fingers were so numb that they could not turn the handle of the door, and Waveney had to come to her help.

  40. At the foot of the steps Chick stopped and looked around, and again he felt numb at the sheer vastness of it all.

  41. It was the work of the Titans--so high and stupendous that at the first instant Watson felt numb with insignificance.

  42. I believe you," Robert Crimmins replied, blowing on his numb fingers.

  43. Anything to get out of this," the men said, blowing on their wet, numb fingers.

  44. I most froze before I got to the bank, and then my skate straps were so wet I couldn't loosen them, besides my fingers were too numb to bend.

  45. He felt numb and so dazed he hardly heeded what the Captain was saying.

  46. The discovery made Jimmy numb with fear and consternation.

  47. Jimmy, though he had wrapped a caribou skin around his shoulders, was becoming numb with cold.

  48. His soul was numb with the conviction that, let it be thrust once more over the brink, it would drop beyond recall into oblivion.

  49. Razor in hand, ready to begin the task of shaving, a fresh onset, still more insistent, went whirling through his brain and sent a sudden numb sensation down his arm.

  50. Already he felt his defiance growing numb before it.

  51. Her legs felt numb as if wooden stilts had been screwed to them upon which she must hasten on without hesitating or stopping, whether she would or no.

  52. He carried them away under his arm, which soon became numb from the weight.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "numb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; allay; alleviate; aloof; apathetic; appease; asleep; assuage; benumb; benumbed; bite; blah; blase; blunt; bored; callous; chill; chloroform; comatose; cushion; cut; dead; deaden; debilitated; detached; diminish; disinterested; dope; dormant; droopy; drug; drugged; dull; ease; enervated; foment; freeze; frost; frostbite; groggy; heartless; heavy; hopeless; inanimate; indifferent; inert; insensate; insensible; insensitive; insentient; jaded; kayo; lackadaisical; languid; languorous; lay; leaden; lessen; lethargic; lifeless; listless; lull; lumpish; mitigate; mollify; moribund; nip; nonchalant; numb; obdurate; obtuse; pad; palliate; paralyze; passive; penetrate; petrify; phlegmatic; pierce; pooped; poultice; reduce; refrigerate; relieve; resigned; salve; sated; shock; slack; slacken; slake; sleepy; slow; sluggish; soften; somnolent; soothe; soporific; spiritless; stagnant; stun; stupefied; stupefy; subdue; supine; thunderstruck; torpid; unconcerned; unconscious; unfeeling; unfelt; uninterested; vegetable; wan; weary; withdrawn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    number from; number thirty; number three; number twenty; numbering about