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

Summer of 1918—Breath of hope that sweeps over the scorched fields, raging fever of impatience, of disappointment, of the most agonizing terror of death, insensate question: Why?

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque