How to use "numb" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "numb" in popular movie and book plots

  • The dream is very intense and lasts for hours and Janie soon becomes completely numb and falls out of her chair.  - Wake (McMann novel)
  • Next morning, Mary wakes on the roadside, numb and battered, and drives to a local auto shop.  - Hit and Run (2009 film)
  • a thing" in a final blog post as Billy, out of costume, looking numb and lost in the midst of his lab.  - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  • She is left numb when she learns that her husband is also a part of the dam project.  - Engineer (film)
  • At first she is too numb to speak and slow to recover.  - Five (1951 film)
  • Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, sex, and purging as an outlet to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite.  - Identical (novel)
  • This is evident because he was addicted to the medicine to numb the pain from his Bad Ankle and fear of fire.  - Reincarnation (novel)
  • Sufferers would turn scarlet, particularly on the face, and become numb in their lower extremities.  - The Scarlet Plague
  • The silent boy gets badly burned on his arm, but incredibly doesn't emit a sound even in that situation, as if completely numb to pain.  - Dragon Head
  • Darren sells to many weirdos, including a dominatrix who wants the pills so her "pets" can be numb when she has sex with them.  - Fifty Pills
  • Vlad awakes in Dzur mountain with his left arm numb and lifeless.  - Issola
  • Mason and Carter are numb with shock as Ross furiously struggles for a logical explanation.  - Death Ship (The Twilight Zone)
  • Sally's psychotic daughter Jessica (Feldman) further complicates the relationship between Sally and the cynical, emotionally numb Joey.  - Heat (1972 film)
  • Franz, meanwhile, begins to lose any will of his own, and becomes a numb extension of his lover.  - King, Queen, Knave
  • In the closing scene, the Griffins wish everyone a Merry Christmas (though Lois is still too numb to speak clearly).  - A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas
  • Afterward, Phyllis and Ben angrily discuss their lives and relationship, which has become numb and emotionless.  - Follies

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