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numb - use in sentences
Object
- sensation: I keep getting a funny numbing sensation in my right foot.
- finger: With fingers numbed by this tingling pain, Feel I'm dying every moment of this silicone day.
- pain: All I deserved was to numb the pain of daily living.
- feeling: A dead, numbing feeling was creeping up their limbs.
Preposition: with
- anesthetic: Day Unknown The microphone slips from my hands which are still numb with anesthetic.
- shock: As I lay there numb with shock I began to wonder what could be wrong.
- cold: I was immersed up to my chin and everything below was numb with cold.
Modifying Another Word
- emotionally: There may also be a feeling of being distant from loved ones or a feeling of being emotionally numb.
- comfortably: Then we had to add a little bit, because Roger wanted to do the line, " I have become comfortably numb " .
- completely: I just stood there for a minute, completely numb.
- totally: He seemed a bit moody and we were all totally numb as we had been standing in the freezing cold for hours!
Modifies a noun
- bum: There are five main problems with this chair: I get a numb bum.
- finger: Numb fingers took us three pitches up the tower then we cut left across the couloir for a couple of long pitches.
- sensation: In addition several patients had trembling and a few developed a tingling, burning or numb sensation in their hands and feet.
- nut: Anyone can say " Shut up, numb nut, I'm trying to give a talk here.
- patch: It feels like i have a big numb patch deep inside of me.
- feeling: I want to know will the numb feeling ever go away.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: Your leg may still feel numb for 24 hours.
- go: My hands went numb with cold in a matter of seconds.
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