How to Use numb in a Sentence

numb

1 of 2 adjective

• A stroke can cause one side of your body to go numb.
• The side of my face was still numb an hour after the surgery.
• Her son had died and she just felt numb.
• He stood there numb with fear.
• I had a numb feeling in my toes.
• It was so cold that my fingers went numb.
• The numb fans in the stands hadn’t seen such a loss in a very long time.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2023
• By the end, her face and fingers were numb from the cold.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• This time Sturino woke to find the right side of her face was numb.
  — Bykristine Gill, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2022
• Is one side of the face drooping or numb, or is the smile uneven?
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 28 Apr. 2022
• Her hands swelled, her feet went numb, her spine ached.
  — David Walters, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
• My body goes numb in the cold water and a sense of calm settles in.
  — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The room was freezing, and the tips of my fingers had wrinkled and gone numb.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• And the children, the most resilient among us, are going numb.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
• Want to book a stay and take so many photos your fingers go numb?
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2021
• Deep frostbite is the next stage, in which the skin can appear blue and mottled, and numb to pain and cold.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• The thin last keeps the foot in place but the boot has extra room in the toe box to keep those digits from getting numb.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• There will always be a numb area above and behind my left ear.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
• When the man handing out food got too cold, or his hands started to go numb, the two would switch roles.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
• In other words, cough pearls numb your airways to calm the cough reflex.
  — Ayana Underwood, SELF, 7 Feb. 2024
• My heart was pounding, and when one of my friends sent a screenshot of the video, my entire body went numb.
  — Madison Beer, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2023
• Once the area is numb, the healthcare provider will make an incision into the abscess to drain the pus.
  — Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 25 June 2023
• Her anxiety spiked, her heart thumped out of her chest, and her left arm went numb.
  — Stephen Noonoo, The New Republic, 2 May 2022
• This cuts off its blood supply, which in turn makes your pinky and ring fingers feel tingly and numb.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 8 Sep. 2023
• Evangelista, now 56, described the changes in her body as hard, numb bulges.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2022
• Topol said the country has become numb to the daily death toll, but it should be viewed as too high.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Mar. 2023
• The morning was cool and quiet, as Uvalde seemed to sit in numb disbelief.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2022
• The long slog of the pandemic - now in its 23rd month - has left Jeffrey Hile almost numb.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
• The long slog of the pandemic — now in its 23rd month — has left Jeffrey Hile almost numb.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• In one scene, Ivo injects herself with painkillers intended for a patient, so as to feel numb.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024

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numb

2 of 2 verb

• The wind might numb my face, but my hands felt warm enough in their leather work gloves.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• If the skin tag is thick and large, your derm may just numb the area and snip it off instead.
  — Chloe Metzger, Allure, 15 Dec. 2023
• And there are ways in which people have decided to try to numb the pain of the past that aren’t healthy.
  — Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2022
• Put your hand on a hot stove and your body will quickly release a squirt to numb the pain.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2022
• While there, doctors used numbing eye drops and were able to pry her eye open.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• For the biopsy, she was placed in stirrups and given a spinal epidural to numb the area.
  — Rachel E. Gross, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• For those who have been putting it off, an investment in Henry Schein could help numb the pain.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• The study authors conclude that pandas might cover their fur in fresh horse manure to numb themselves to the cold.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• Fragrant, with a hint of citrus, the reddish-pink berries of the prickly ash tree numb the lips upon impact.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
• Instead of numbing your brain by playing Candy Crunch, try and see where your idle mind takes you.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
• And if not medication to calm the nerves, then novocaine to numb the discomfort.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• Cold therapy has been the gold standard in DIY migraine relief for decades thanks to the numbing effect of a good ice pack.
  — The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• Using cooling, the implant would numb specific peripheral nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2022
• What started as using to numb the pain after a few years became using against my will.
  — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 Dec. 2022
• For both Crystal and Brian, the weeks and months following the accident were numbing.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
• Ross described battling suicidal thoughts and reaching for drugs to numb the pain.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• This can be done in a healthcare provider's office with topical medicine to numb the affected area.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
• Come spring, the prospect of getting some vitamin D without opting for a face-numbing polar blast sounds too good to be true.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 10 Mar. 2023
• For Rodulfo, no—because she was numbed and her technician had a light hand.
  — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
• Again, a concept and sentence that would have read like parody a year earlier but doesn’t numb the pain of falling short.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 31 Mar. 2021
• This breed is reportedly known to numb its prey before laying eggs.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• During a skin biopsy, your doctor will numb your skin and use a small tool to take a sample of your skin cells, which can then be looked at under a microscope.
  — Eleesha Lockett, SELF, 17 June 2022
• Suvari escaped into the rave scene, late night clubbing and eventually hard drugs to numb the pain.
  — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2021
• Don’t numb your psychic wounds, but also don’t over-catastrophize.
  — Karen Magruder, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
• After medication is injected to numb the palm and wrist, a small incision is made near the wrist.
  — Kristin Karim, M.d., Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• The 30-something Brooklynite played by Arnow herself (in a perpetual Garfield the cat scowl) goes on dull dates and powers through a numbing office job.
  — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• That blinding illumination can bring on a numbing sense of malaise, and even derail your day.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2023
• The first episode finds Jimmy, a year into his mourning, hitting rock bottom, numbing himself with booze and drugs and a late-night pool party with call girls.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• The most famous is mala, which electrifies with its combination of spicy chiles and numbing, tingly Sichuan pepper.
  — Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• People in Auschwitz had to numb themselves quite severely in order to get through that experience.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024