How To Use Benumbed In A Sentence
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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
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Unsure whether to be relieved or paranoid, Karae unfolded her benumbed legs and lay back in the thick grass, dozing happily, taking full advantage of the calm state her meditation had bestowed on her.
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
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There is a peace of conscience which is a disease of conscience, a benumbedness of conscience, or a sleep of conscience, when men walk in the imagination of their own hearts, and flatter themselves in their own eyes, will not trouble themselves with the apprehension of the wrath of God.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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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
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Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality.
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the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond
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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.
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Nor are narcotics -- from narkosis, Greek for "benumbed" -- necessarily all about nodding.
Chicago Reader
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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
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Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready.
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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
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In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency.
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Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality.
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The homeless was benumbed with cold.
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His hand left his weapon and trailed down his friend's benumbed arm.
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Workers seemed so benumbed that they couldn't perceive just how numb they were.
Times, Sunday Times
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I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air.
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These weeks, however, when we are gathered together benumbed and in need of each other are not the moments for critical analysis.
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Refusing to believe in the interference, and even presence of the spirits, in the so-called spiritualistic phenomena, we nevertheless believe in the living spirit of man; we believe in the omnipotence of this spirit, and in its natural, though benumbed capacities.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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And for a country that was born of faith and the fearlessness of millions of people crawling, paddling and begging their ways here so they could be free to now be a country paralyzed by magical thinking and benumbed with viral fear is heartbreaking.
Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
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Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality.
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She was benumbed with grief at the death of her husband.
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The homeless was benumbed with cold.
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The general reaction in the country has been benumbed indifference.
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Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each.
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
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She wandered through the house and around the backyard in a benumbed state of shock.
The Painter's Wife, a short story
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Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
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Sitting as close to the fire as possible, I tried to warm up my benumbed fingers.
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There was everything to repel -- the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence.
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The lights from the cars parked outside cut through the curtains and fall on Doug's exhausted, benumbed face.
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Sturdy, more frost-resistant than bees, they were already on the wing and preying on the benumbed flies.
CHAPTER I
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Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity.
The Hunger Cry
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He knew not what his thoughts were - his mind was benumbed and seemed to shun reflection and take refuge in vacancy.
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As Cameron speaks, at last the truth sinks into Tristan's benumbed brain.
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The result was me holding a patient's chart in two benumbed hands while burning with humiliation at the note attached to the front: ‘Patient has decided to change oncologists.’
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If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief.
Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
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The fingers of the homeless were benumbed with cold.
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The scandals and crimes form a tsunami of noise, inrushing upon a benumbed ear, until all that can be perceived is a background static of wrongness, like the vestigial radiation of the Big Bang that permeates the universe.
Chip Collis: We Want Change... But From What?
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She laughed, flexing the muscles of her benumbed leg: "Your expression intimidated me.
The Common Law
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When there is a benumbedness, or searedness, upon the grand principle of spiritual sense, so that, as it is expressed in
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
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Shall she be the Bondslave of Time, the Handmaid of opinion, or the strict observer of every frosty or cold benumbed imagination?
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Sheree stood there benumbed by what just occurred and by the fact that despite her convictions, she had so little regrets, too.
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See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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King responded to the salute from Obama with a kind of benumbed indifference, although later in the show he expressed oddly unctuous gratitude to fellow TV talker "Dr. Phil" McGraw, who popped into the studio for a folksy bye-bye.
A star-studded, but still somewhat muted, farewell for 'Larry King Live'
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So he stood at the bedside, gripping his father's arm, benumbed by the emotions his father was displaying, the emotions he himself was feeling.
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For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid.
Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
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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 a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!
Hard Times
