How To Use benumb In A Sentence
- Physical exhaustion and the resulting benumbment of a mind that depended much on sleep probably are the basic explanation for Jackson's inability to meet the demands of the campaign. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
- If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief. Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
- My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
- She wandered through the house and around the backyard in a benumbed state of shock. The Painter's Wife, a short story
- But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
- Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
- Sitting as close to the fire as possible, I tried to warm up my benumbed fingers.
- The dying lose correspondence after correspondence; nerve after nerve and sense after sense collapse; communications are slowly broken; and by gradual paralysis and benumbment all correspondences end. The Epistles of St. Peter
- There was everything to repel -- the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
- Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence.
