insentient

Example Sentences

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“I began gradually to stir into another style of life, less theoretical and less optimistic, less vulnerable. I was ready for an insentient middle age,” he wrote in “The Savage God.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2019

There, with the ability to talk to the unresponsive living, his nerves "insentient now as string," he longs even for the pain of Hell.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

He saw infinitely more of deity in his fellow-men—in his and their pleasures, pursuits, and hopes—than in all the insentient things on the face of the earth; and consequently he clung to men.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

Yvonne unresisting, insentient, went whither she was bidden to go.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness