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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