Example Sentences

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I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

Tate Modern's current show Exposed, on surveillance photography, feels intellectually threadbare and aesthetically benumbing.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2010

Its book floats, on a rusty keel, all over the Mediterranean and unloads benumbing wheezes at every port of call.

From Time Magazine Archive

McGoohan regards The Prisoner as a protest against "the dehumanizing, the 'numeralization,' the loss of individuality which is happening to us all"�a thought that, he might add, is fast becoming a benumbing clich�.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Clinic had prepared me for it, benumbing my sense of shame, and besides, I was desperate for money.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides