insentient

Example Sentences

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“I began gradually to stir into another style of life, less theoretical and less optimistic, less vulnerable. I was ready for an insentient middle age,” he wrote in “The Savage God.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2019

There, with the ability to talk to the unresponsive living, his nerves "insentient now as string," he longs even for the pain of Hell.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Here before him was Nature's finest insentient handiwork.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John

But this form of infidelity merely indicates a natural incapacity for receiving certain emotions; though many honest and good men belong to this insentient class.

From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John