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

The author trots out secondary characters and walk-ons who, along with the benumbed Jovan, play like a Chandleresque lineup of suspects: nurses, psychologists, fellow janitors, the married dentist Jovan is canoodling with.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

"River of Fundament" was inspired by "Ancient Evenings," Norman Mailer's sprawlingly bad 1983 novel — 709 pages of benumbed egocentrism set in pharaonic Egypt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2015

No longer feeling any cold in his legs and arms nor on his face, he thought that the frost had benumbed him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin