There was nothing for it but to go on without, and as my feet were perfectly numbed from the cold, and devoid of feeling, I did not experience any difficulty or pain on this account.
The loss of these fur gloves proved very serious to me, as my hands soon began to get so numbed with the cold, that they were comparatively useless.
My hands, as I have said, were so numbed with cold as to be nearly useless.
The night was cold for them, and they lay out in shell-holes, getting numbed and cramped and longing for the first gleam of light, when they could get on the move and do this fighting.
How could they when for three years we have been talking in superlatives without exaggerating the facts, but without understanding them, as minds are numbed by colossal figures?
For the first word I received upon entering Visconti's was that Griselda had called me repeatedly and Griselda's news chilled and numbed every fiber in my body.
That one cataclysmic fact has taken its abode in my brain and numbed it as well as all my nerves to a chill and deadly paralysis that excludes everything else.
What the Epeira sucks is not a corpse, but a numbed body.
And then there came a great reaction, an overpowering weakness, a great sense of thankfulness, and tears gushed up in my eyes, and fell upon my numbed hands.
He had blinded her with the blindness of ignorance, and goaded her with the goad of ignominy; but for all that, some way her bandaged eyes had sought and found the light, some way her numbed hide had thrilled and swerved beneath the barb.
She was numbedby weakness, and her brain seemed deadened by a hot pain, that shot through it as with tongues of flame.
All day they waded with numbed feet vainly searching for a footing in the slime.
He bade me fetch the portfolio he carried, and with numbed fingers wrote the letter while his captains stared in admiration and amazement.
Here was a word that volleyed at her from all directions, numbed and bewildered her: the multiple echoes of her own first utterance of the word.
Slow as was their progress, it was as rapid as Righ could manage, numbed with cold, and exhausted with hunger.
The death of father and brother and of many friends, countless wrongs, years of misery, loss of caste, of money and of home hadnumbed him against every feeling save that of revenge.
His wet feet froze the faster, and his exposed fingers numbed the faster, though they had not yet begun to freeze.
He beat his head with the heel of his hand, knocking wakefulness into the numbed brain.
It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numbed nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand.
For a moment he tugged with his numbed fingers, then, realizing the folly of it, he drew his sheath-knife.
A crisp wind blew down the river, freezing their hands and making it imperative, from time to time, to beat the blood back into the numbed fingers.
One of the squires loosed off at him instantly, the slug striking the handgun more by accident than design, sending it spinning as Jerran howled and gripped his numbed fingers.
Retiring to her bower, and dismissing her maidens, she cast herself upon the floor, and, numbed by despair, remained inanimate for hours.
The austere Abbess strove to instil comfort into the numbed soul--without avail.
There was, to be sure, a great deal of astonishment in her looks, but there was also consternation; and when she spoke it was in a numbed and absent way.
As she crouched beside the fire, numbed by pain beyond the power of thought, she could conjure up but one memory--the morning of their first meeting.
Snow filled his eyes and lashed his numbed cheeks, his lips were bleeding, and his hands and his feet felt wooden with the icy cold.
Harding's woolen-mittened hand was numbed on the reins, and he feared that it was getting frostbitten.
There was no feeling in his feet, and his hands were too numbed to button his ragged coat, which had fallen open.
Dudley shook with the cold that hadnumbed his limbs while sleeping, and now seemed to be penetrating to his very heart.
His thoughts wound slowly round and round and the bitterness in him ate into his soul and numbed him.
I was numbed with cold and exhausted by my struggles, and when I gained the bank I surrendered at discretion.
My feet were rather numbed after the cold water, as we had to break the ice at every step.
Many of the men could hardly stand, their feet were so numbed with the cold of the trenches, but we got them safely in about 10 p.
It was well for Malcolm that they did so, for so stiff and numbed were his limbs that he could scarcely hold the axe, and the slightest push would have thrown him to the ground.
Had it not been for them he would have begun to doubt his ability to reach the further shore, for although he would have thought nothing of the swim at other times his limbs were fast becoming numbed with the extreme cold.
The men in vain tried to struggle to their feet--their limbs were too numbed to bear them.
Though the weather was clear, he grew numbed and careless under the strain of his fatigue, so that the frost bit hungrily at his features.
It was late in the afternoon, the valley was swept by driving snow, and the men's hands were so numbed that they found it difficult to strap on their heavy loads.
They lighted a fire and sat beside it, thawing two sticks of dynamite, a proceeding attended by some risk, which Carnally seriously increased when he crimped the powerful detonating caps on the fuses with numbed and clumsy fingers.
The others laughed, but Andrew, awkwardly filling his pipe with numbed fingers, looked serious.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "numbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
