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insensible - use in sentences
Preposition: within
- second: No stun is used for sheep as they generally become insensible within 10 seconds.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- render: It was shown that the energy imparted by the hammer blows had been insufficient to render the dogs insensible.
Modifying Another Word
- quite: The child was not quite insensible, tho nearly so.
- not: Even a great criminal is not insensible to such an appeal.
- utterly: The House however is utterly insensible to all " principles " of this kind.
- almost: The next noon but one an almost insensible female form was carried or rather dragged to the scaffold.
- apparently: These persons then fell down to the ground apparently insensible.
- nearly: The solar radiation on this planet is nearly insensible.
Used with adjective complement
- become: In their very great misery they had become insensible to the bite of the lash or the bruise of the club.
- render: Duncan, tho rendered insensible, escaped with only minor injuries.
- lie: They both stopped in sight down the lane, where the third man lay insensible.
- fall: The next minute the ladder gave way and Macpherson fell insensible in the ditch.
- seem: She seemed insensible, not only of nature, but of the presence of her companion.
- carry: The whole scene swam before me, and I was carried back insensible by some who recognized me.
Modifies a noun
- loss: This should be enough to cover insensible losses in addition to their urine volume.
- form: The next noon but one an almost insensible female form was carried or rather dragged to the scaffold.
- moisture: This is due to evaporation from the surface of the lungs during breathing and through the evaporation of insensible moisture on the skin.
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