benumbed

Example Sentences

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Its importance may have been underestimated by a benumbed Supreme Court press, understandably focused on what is likely to be the Court’s decision.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2022

As friends and neighbors watch in silent awe, confused, benumbed, the father lowers the launcher and stage-growls the absolutely unnecessary: “It’s a boy.”

From Washington Post • May 13, 2021

“A movie’s an hour and a half” is Amy’s benumbed reply — and that’s time she doesn’t have to waste.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020

A benumbed melancholy throbs through both the novel and film, which plays like a lampoon lamentation for the Southern California utopia that might have been.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2014

No longer feeling any cold in his legs and arms nor on his face, he thought that the frost had benumbed him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin