How to Use desensitize in a Sentence

desensitize

verb

• The shot will help to desensitize the nerve.
• Like the shots, the pills desensitize the body to the pollen.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 26 June 2017
• Sometimes the wisest are the youngest in our lives, the ones who haven’t yet been desensitized to the atrocities of our world.
  — Katie Reilly, Time, 28 May 2018
• Four days in Ivrea hadn’t desensitized me to the unusualness of any of it.
  — Jon Mooallem Andrea Frazzetta, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• A few minutes will desensitize the skin for hours of relief.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
• The other half might care, but has been so desensitized in the past 28 years, its interest in/defense of Rose is mild at best.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Some of the trainers at least wanted to desensitize Tilikum in case someone fell in.
  — Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online, 30 July 2010
• So has the country been desensitized to mass shootings?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2020
• Many deaf-blind people can’t read Braille with gloves on because their hands are desensitized.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2020
• Meth users also may be desensitized to pain, Price said, so using a Taser may not affect them.
  — Alexis Stevens, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• Sue from Pleasanton offered some tips on desensitizing Rudy to the camo.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2017
• The effect, to a child who is not desensitized enough, (sadly) can be detrimental.
  — Curtis Silver, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2012
• As people get desensitized to it, kids are freaking out.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Once a week, a massage therapist dug into her scars, helping to desensitize the tissue and push the muscle and skin apart.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2019
• For fear, try to desensitize your pup to trigger noises by playing movies with the sounds of thunderstorms or fireworks.
  — Hannah Harper, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Put the cream on their skin before the injection, following your health care provider's instructions, to desensitize the area.
  — Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Parents, 21 Sep. 2023
• The intent is to suck the air out of the defense’s attacks and desensitize the jury to Mr. Cohen’s baggage, turning him into an object of amusement.
  — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 12 May 2024
• The whole point of these movies is to desensitize us to the brutality, and to spend a couple hundred million dollars playing with Hasbro’s toys for us.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
• This helps desensitize dogs to having their paws handled.
  — Zoe Malin, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2021
• The goal of exposure is to desensitize you to these things and also to give you practice riding out your anxious feelings, rather than avoiding them.
  — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2020
• Therefore, the injection should have desensitized the rat’s whole body equally.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2018
• As well as becoming desensitized to Trump, there's also a sense that Britain is engulfed in so much chaos of its own that the visiting president was more of a sideshow.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2019
• In many cases, desensitizing toothpaste (which works to block transmission of sensation from your tooth’s surface to the nerve) can help, the ADA says.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 Apr. 2018
• People seemed to cope in one of two ways: turning away from the problem or overthinking it and becoming desensitized.
  — Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, azcentral, 8 June 2018
• In short: We’re becoming desensitized to the devastation that the climate crisis is causing, which isn’t good because the worst is still to come.
  — Mekita Rivas, refinery29.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• The danger for me was always becoming desensitized to that.
  — Laura Barcella, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2019
• Why the researchers did this study Three years ago the FDA approved a protein powder taken over a period of months to desensitize those with peanut allergies.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2023
• Before putting something gross directly on a patient's skin, maybe doctors could put the substance on a rubber hand to desensitize the patient.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2015
• As the number of lives at risk increases, psychic numbing begins to desensitize us.
  — Rose McDermott, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2023
• Both types of stories can obscure and desensitize us to the disturbing violence.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024