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How to use numbness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word numbness? Here are some examples.

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It was dark out, and a steady drizzle of rain fell upon them as the numbness wore away.
It affects the muscles used to move, but not the nerves dealing with sensation, so there is no numbness or pins and needles.
She suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone and claimed to have had blurred vision and numbness in her face following the fracas.
The two nerves most likely to cause pain or numbness around the hip are the sciatic and lateral femoral cutaneous nerves.
Jonathon's vice-like grip tightened, and suddenly there was no pain, just cold numbness.
In addition, guggul is used for arteriosclerosis, arthritic and rheumatic problems, numbness and impaired circulation.
Such bloodstained enormities pass unnoticed now in a media pummelled into numbness by a government at last bereft of any moral sense or shame.
As I run my palm along its breadth, a gelid numbness permeates into my flesh.
Maybe the numbness is the body providing temporary anesthesia for the pain.
Linda Harris relates how, after the numbness of widowhood wore off, she found love again through the lonely hearts column of her local newspaper.
Many women suffer prolonged backache, headaches, tingling and numbness as a result of the injection.
Another problem is that narrow unpadded shoulder straps, can dig into the shoulder causing pain, numbness and tingling in the hands and arms.
Those intrusions of the world outside awaken me from my soporific slumber, as I dwell in drowsy numbness, as though of hemlock I have drunk.
It started in the left leg, the tingle creeping slowly through the whole limb leaving numbness in its wake.
Sometimes it was more like numbness or paralysis, or even problems with co-ordination.
Within days, with his co-ordination going and a numbness spreading over his body, he was rushed into hospital.
The specific vertebra of the neck that corresponds to the fingers is then adjusted to alleviate the numbness.
Convinced that Paul was stealing his thunder, if not his soul, John fought his resentment with numbness.
These include numbness and weakness of the lower extremities, opisthotonos and seizures.
The numbness spread quickly, and after I'd cleaned the cut the blood subsided to an ooze.
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Examples from Classical Literature
During the night, the fullness, numbness, and prickling were much increased.
He had a gone feeling at the pit of the stomach, and suffered from faintness and numbness.
A chill numbness held him as he waited for a second blast to charr the flesh between his shoulders.
Paris has not yet had relief from the cloddy numbness brought on with the War.
The legs were the seat of a heavy, unwieldy sensation, but there was no numbness or other paresthesia.
The disturbance of the circulation further leads to numbness, to some anesthesia, and to paresthesia.
Though no physiologist, she concluded that all that sudden numbness was in her head, not in her limbs.
He was waiting until the first numbness of the shock had passed.
For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.
He walked up and down, batting his head savagely with his fists, but he could not conquer the numbness of sleep.
Or perhaps from numbness he slipped into a kind of deep sleep.
He had intermittent periods of numbness in the lower half of his body.
It was not merely during the three hours and a half which Uncle Sam claimed as his share of my daily life that this wretched numbness held possession of me.
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