insensible

Example Sentences

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But the Cylinder Sling by Building Block flirts with such attitude without becoming rude or insensible.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024

"The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, passed in 1958, requires all animals be 'rendered insensible to pain' before being shackled or killed — all animals except for poultry," she notes.

From Salon • May 10, 2023

The car is a dark conglomerate of metal, glass, and plastic, as inanimate and insensible as a stone.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

One sensible reaction to living in an insensible world is to create a world of your own, and that’s exactly what we heard on many of the year’s best recordings.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2015

Curzon lay insensible, his skin burning with fever, his eyes rolled up into his head.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson