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How to use benumbed in a sentence

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So he stood at the bedside, gripping his father's arm, benumbed by the emotions his father was displaying, the emotions he himself was feeling.
In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency.
These weeks, however, when we are gathered together benumbed and in need of each other are not the moments for critical analysis.
The lights from the cars parked outside cut through the curtains and fall on Doug's exhausted, benumbed face.
My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
Sheree stood there benumbed by what just occurred and by the fact that despite her convictions, she had so little regrets, too.
I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air.
Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each.
Sitting as close to the fire as possible, I tried to warm up my benumbed fingers.
Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready.
Shall she be the Bondslave of Time, the Handmaid of opinion, or the strict observer of every frosty or cold benumbed imagination?
By now, everyone is so benumbed that it takes the truly weird even to register at all.
As Cameron speaks, at last the truth sinks into Tristan's benumbed brain.
Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality.
Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality.
Duly benumbed, you may slip the odd item of power or caprice into a pocket of memory, to take home.
The scene is so extreme, the physical and psychological violence is so hard to bear, that McQueen's direction seems benumbed.
It's not uncommon for survivors of catastrophes to feel benumbed by what they have experienced.
His hand left his weapon and trailed down his friend's benumbed arm.
Rightly, I was underlining lately that after zazen, when you stand up to do kin-hin, you have the legs benumbed.
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The heart may be quite happy and strong when the hands are benumbed with cold.
In vain I shifted my aching legs and worked my benumbed hands, looking out ahead for the embouchure of the river.
After crouching cramped and benumbed in the canoe, poulticed in wet or damp clothing night and day, my limbs had been asleep.
He was conscious only of a great void and blank as he sat there overpowered and benumbed.
He simply felt as if benumbed, as if plunged into gentle and delightful stupor.
It is so cold, so dark, my senses are so benumbed, and the gloom upon me is so dreadful.
She turned in her sleep and tried to listen, but her senses were fogged, benumbed.
He moved on in silence, as if his energies were benumbed by the hitherto undreamt-of possibility that his position was untenable.
The name had benumbed him again, and once more he felt as if Zeena were in the room between them.
Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity.
But she did not stir, she did not speak, so benumbed was she with grief.
The icy water so benumbed us we could scarcely control our limbs.
I lay down on a deck-chair, and when dawn came was benumbed and sleepy.
But the gathering grew sad, benumbed, as it were, with lassitude.
Her anxiety and fatigue had stupefied her and benumbed her faculties.
He was weary with happiness, a happiness that benumbed his limbs.
The fisherman, benumbed by the cold night air, replied in a hoarse voice, asking what they wanted of him.
They were so chilled and benumbed by the cold, however, that they lost all heart, and absolutely refused.
He heard no sound, for his normal faculties seemed benumbed.
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