Example Sentences

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It is benumbing to consider how many perfectly good enmities have been ruined by the imposition of gentleness, fatigue or common sense.

From Time Magazine Archive

He conceals its vacuity beneath forms of a highly-colored style, an amiable negligence and a facility that is benumbing to thought.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

But it is benumbing, deadening in its influences.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William

The idea of my being here is benumbing and silencing.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow