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

In the course of her Zoom interview with the Guardian, she also claims to feel like one of the characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, benumbed by a constant stream of media stimulation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2020

"River of Fundament" was inspired by "Ancient Evenings," Norman Mailer's sprawlingly bad 1983 novel — 709 pages of benumbed egocentrism set in pharaonic Egypt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015

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