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

You wonder if the sudden exposure to so much warmth and acceptance has sent her into shock, or if any feeling has even managed to penetrate her benumbed state.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2018

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

As, with benumbed legs, he slowly left the still sleeping town at daybreak, a crouching shadow emerged from the last hut and joined the pilgrim.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse