insensate

Example Sentences

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She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, blunt pain and temporarily paralyse her muscles.

From BBC

Speaking personally, the terror-fueled adrenaline dump that would have ensued after I read that very first “Do not answer” would have reduced me to an insensate lump.

From New York Times

It was reptilian, insensate, Coleridge’s monster of “motiveless malignity.”

From New York Times

In the highest-profile case, four Oklahoma prisoners contended that using midazolam constituted cruel and unusual punishment because it “fails to render a person insensate to pain.”

From Scientific American

“But if midazolam is not capable of maintaining that insensate state, we may well be producing the same feeling in the person being executed.”

From New York Times