insensate
Example Sentences
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She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, blunt pain and temporarily paralyse her muscles.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
It was reptilian, insensate, Coleridge’s monster of “motiveless malignity.”
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
Supreme Court, have maintained that the use of midazolam as the first in a three-drug protocol is likely to render an inmate insensate to pain.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2022
The only explanation I have is that my interest was accelerated by a desire to please, an insensate understanding of pop culture and a pathological curiosity.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2018
She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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