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

In the higher stages of evolution the cosmic forces, ceasing to act merely on insentient matter, have operated on sentient beings, and in so doing have given rise to the mystery of pain and suffering.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)

The kernel, the man himself—seemed so tender—the covering so stiff and insentient.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)