Example Sentences

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My son was right: It was clunky—a little slower and a lot less whizbang-slick than iPhones had numbed me to expect.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2023

Yet the movie’s energies drop perceptibly in the middle section; lines of dialogue are recited at a sluggish rate, with lengthy pauses, as if the pressure of the presiding theme had numbed the characters’ tongues.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2020

Decades of population planning had numbed people to government intrusion in their reproductive lives.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2018

Fatigued and depressed, he was to attend a mass meeting of protesting HEW staffers three weeks ago when he was suddenly hospitalized because an exhaustion-induced nerve ailment had numbed his arm.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had numbed himself, according to Ana, the therapist who Mark and Linda sent him to, so that he wouldn’t feel any future pain.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway