Example Sentences

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But false alarms have numbed people to the present danger.

From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2020

Games on Sunday, Monday and Thursday, plus a handful of overseas trips for novelty games in London, have numbed the viewer.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2016

I can’t go in until the halls are empty and the teachers have numbed them with boredom so they won’t notice when I slip down the halls.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The sudden misfortune which had befallen me seemed to have numbed and dulled all but my bodily faculties.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

The cold would have numbed us, and we should have been swept off our feet if there had been any waves.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah