How To Use benumb In A Sentence
- The benumbing influence of antiquity -- or rather of that extended period which may be called the Aristotelian age, the age in which all philosophic thought was utterly benumbed by the Greek literature -- has not yet passed away. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
- After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive Hard Times
- In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency.
- 570 Then she took from her side a plaited scourge and came down with it on my back and the place where I sit till her forearms were benumbed and I fainted away from the much beating; when she said to the handmaids, “Take him and carry him to the Chief of Police, that he may strike off the hand wherewith he ate of the cumin ragout, and which he did not wash.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- _ Certain poisonous drugs may prove effective to suppress certain symptoms by benumbing the nerves and preventing pain; they may, and do counteract the natural process by which nature exercises her power in various ways in the spontaneous effort to throw off disease, in the form of inflammations, fevers or pains; _but they can never heal, or eradicate disease_. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
- Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready.
- I had not thought to find the faculties of Salamon Sweers so quickly benumbed by what was indeed a wild and dangerous confrontment, yet not so formidable and hopeless as to weaken the nerves of a seaman. The Honour of the Flag
- Nor are narcotics -- from narkosis, Greek for "benumbed" -- necessarily all about nodding. Chicago Reader
- Not until, hungered and benumbed by cold, I found the road I sought, did I open my clenched hand, there to reveal the new-minted roughness of the silver coin given me by my mother.
- the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond
