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How to use numb in a sentence

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Sparrows huddled together, perfectly still, like stone cherubs with their numb fingers thrust under their armpits.
The effect of this long anticipated encounter reminded her of that light, numb feeling often experienced in dreams.
Stick out the full 20 minutes and you will emerge sensually numb and eager to disengage with emotional conflict.
Almost all of my torso and lower body had been numb in the first place, so the result was merely a dull ache.
I mean, really, what would you love to do in this situation if you aren't left numb from the toxic encounter?
Mix a shot of vodka or tequila into a glass of water and gargle to help numb a sore throat or eliminate tooth pain.
She now slugged the remainder of her drink back in an attempt to numb her irritation.
A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash.
He spends his days stealing beer and cigarettes to numb the boredom of life in the miniscule, snowbound village he has grown up in.
I squirmed on the uncomfortable seat, trying to work some feeling back into my numb tailbone.
You're standing beside a beer cooler on the bank of a frozen Siberian river, and your nose is numb with cold.
My hands were getting numb with the cold and I'd got blood all down the side of my head where the oxygen bottle had hit me.
I awoke to find this numb sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache.
He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go numb with cold.
I lay there still in a numb daze from the shock of Mike's mysterious and sudden death.
I still felt numb and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real.
His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while.
I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to numb the senses of even the most fanatical supporter.
Putting ice on your heel or rolling your foot over a can of frozen juice will numb the pain, he says.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I was lashed by a freezing rain, my numb hands were cut and bleeding, and there were ten weary miles still ahead.
Because Dives had been numb to human needs, Lazarus was the new-discovered leader.
And they slogged and sloshed toward it, numb to all that was going on about them.
Then there was a jarring impact that made his arm numb to the shoulder.
The Story Girl still stood up staunchly and counselled struggling on, but she was numb with cold and her words were hardly distinguishable.
When she thought that he was there at hand, waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy.
Arthur's cheery acceptance of the news that she received invitations from others had been like a blow, leaving her numb and listless.
Sir Henry and I held out our hands to it, for we were numb from our long drive.
His neck was quivering with nervous weakness and the muscles of his arms felt numb and bloodless.
There is no epidural strong enough to numb the pain of the sycophancy we are about to bear.
Upon trial he found the trigger finger too numb for movement.
Even her eyelids rested numb and heavily over her sleepy eyes.
My legs were numb with cold, and I thought I should have stumbled.
The book in which he did so is not named in the chapter just quoted, but in Numb.
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