How To Use blunted In A Sentence
- Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge. Times, Sunday Times
- These lines seem to consist of a fluid matter, which seems to have exsuded in circular zones, as their edges appear blunted or retracted; and the septarium seems to have split easier in such sections parallel to its equator. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
- My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
- In the middle of the well-worn floor stood two of their number, wielding blunted swords that had been scaled specifically to their size.
- By using the same generic convention — the recipe — to mock formulaic fiction that seemingly "blunted" the mind, reviewers also created a new generic technology that was as manufactured as its target. Haunted Britain in the 1970s
- The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- The difference between string timbres and percussion timbres is intentionally blunted here.
- The unwarranted use of walkouts and boycotts has blunted their efficacy.
- The wits of our people have been blunted, their habits bestialized, their very climate and landscape ruined. South Wind
- There might have been withheld from the Saviour those strong religious consolations, those clear views of the justice and goodness of God, which would have blunted his pains and soothed his agonies.