benumbed

Example Sentences

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Its importance may have been underestimated by a benumbed Supreme Court press, understandably focused on what is likely to be the Court’s decision.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2022

As friends and neighbors watch in silent awe, confused, benumbed, the father lowers the launcher and stage-growls the absolutely unnecessary: “It’s a boy.”

From Washington Post • May 13, 2021

Britta, a healing practitioner, her entrepreneur husband, Richard, and their young daughter are part of this benumbed society.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2019

He is frozen, benumbed, until, one bitterly cold morning, a dying American intelligence officer arrives on his doorstep and challenges him to live again.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2013

He continued to swim in Dumbledore’s wake, the tips of his benumbed fingers brushing the rough, wet rock.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling