benumb

Example Sentences

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Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of the people….

From Forbes • Aug. 26, 2014

I say, with all the resolution, with all the exertion of every one of those good feelings which you would sear and benumb.

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by Iffland, Augustus William

It was during this period that Adah met with one of those sorrows which benumb the sensitive feminine heart.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

The older a man is, within limits of course, the more interesting he should be, and is, unless he has weakly allowed age to benumb him before his time.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Out of the untroubled surface rose the trunks of sickly looking and decayed trees, presenting amid the black and driving rain, a spectacle sufficient to chill and benumb the most manly heart.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler