Example Sentences

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No longer feeling any cold in his legs and arms nor on his face, he thought that the frost had benumbed him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Austin dreaded the ordeal; but despair and remorse had benumbed Dick's faculties; he had passed the stage at which men fear.

From Viviette by Locke, William John

Doubtless despair had benumbed Wibberley's mind, for he did not reply, and Burton Smith had to put his question more than once before he got an answer.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

During the crossing the stifling weight that had benumbed her intellect ever since the man with the dent in his hat came riding up the drive seemed suddenly to lift.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

She fell from his palsied arms back on the couch, and he stood gazing on her as if struck by a power which had benumbed all his faculties.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane