Example Sentences

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The numbers were numbing last season for UCLA’s defense.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2018

Most of the time they were also hard on the mind because they were numbing.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2015

This he took in his big, red hands, which were numbing in the cold.

From Bruvver Jim's Baby by Mighels, Philip Verrill

He is very quiet now, and growing ever more sleepy, ay, as if some poison were numbing him all over.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

I hooked my arm round the rope, for my fingers were numbing.

From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John