How to Use mind-numbing in a Sentence

mind-numbing

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• Jules is the reason Mary Pat gets through each mind-numbing day.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• It’s been a hard few weeks here on the sports money beat, replete with some mind-numbing numbers.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• If that’s the sort of sparkling repartee that made it into Rennervations, how mind-numbing was the stuff that got cut?
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
• No reporter’s task is less glamorous, or more mind-numbing, than sifting through the dozens of meeting agendas that City Hall posts each week.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Chester, Montana, clocked in as the coldest spot in the nation when the temperature plunged to a mind-numbing minus 54 degrees.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Despite the mind-numbing complexities of high finance, the story of SVB turned out to be pretty simple.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• The Rapids took part in the record-setting affair on Saturday night, a 0-0 tie at home against the Houston Dynamo that was their mind-numbing seventh scoreless affair of the season.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The sides spent eight hours going over nitty-gritty details about the use of AI, screenwriter fees, mind-numbing residual formulas and more.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• But, also typical of Mickelson, there were some mind-numbing mistakes.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Over the longer term, the statistical projections quickly rose to mind-numbing absurdity.
  — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Forty-one road games a year; practice, drills, and weight-lifting every day; mind-numbing film and scouting sessions; family, friends, employers, and teammates alike all demanding something from you.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• Virgin Suicide Coppola grounds his mind-numbing plot with something any American relate to — a monolithic pop girlie.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 May 2024
• What should be a sparkling recounting of a pivotal moment in U.S. history is flattened, becoming a mind-numbing and belabored affair of wig-wearing men shouting at each other in dark rooms.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Yet Judge Griesa was facing a different kind of nightmare scenario: endless, mind-numbing litigation.
  — Gregory Makoff, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
• Several times in recent weeks, the pitcher has followed this new routine, slipping into a mind-numbing trance as mental skills coach Brent Walker hypnotizes him — literally — while seated by his side.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• In a cavernous convention hall in Northern California, at the end of a long, loooong day of important, yes, but eventually mind-numbing presentations about native plants, nearly 200 scientists, botanists and students had had enough.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• But with the recent explosion of products in the category, finding a quality powder can be a mind-numbing experience full of confusing acronyms, unpronounceable ingredients, and suspicious health claims.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024