benumbed

How To Use benumbed In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• The lights from the cars parked outside cut through the curtains and fall on Doug's exhausted, benumbed face.
• Sturdy, more frost-resistant than bees, they were already on the wing and preying on the benumbed flies. CHAPTER I
• Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity. The Hunger Cry