Example Sentences

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Over the years, the success of the measles vaccine has numbed many to these risks, health experts say.

From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2022

No arrests have been made in his killing and her anguish has numbed her to most of the world, says her daughter, Yesica Valdivia.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022

It’s impossible, she says, for us to grasp how shocking the spectacle would have been for 19th-century consumers, now that the breakneck pace of technological discovery has numbed us to even the most startling innovations.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Maybe the Tyson Effect has numbed us to the lack of competition in front of Rousey.

From Time • Mar. 1, 2015

You have struck a blow that has numbed my senses.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)