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Example sentences for "numbly"

Lexicographically close words:
numbereth; numbering; numberless; numbers; numbing; numbness; numbre; numbred; numen; numerable
  1. Numbly she felt him gather her high up into his arms, his lips still clinging closely, and carry her across the tent through curtains into an adjoining room.

  2. She wondered numbly what would become of her.

  3. Soames went numbly to see what had happened.

  4. Soames wondered numbly just how indiscreet she'd been, in a short-wave conversation that could be picked up by any of the other-nation bases that cared to listen in.

  5. At Kowno they crowded numbly across the bridge, fighting for precedence, when they might have walked at leisure across the ice.

  6. Then he staggered numbly across the yard to the door of the inn.

  7. When the sky began to pale in the east, they numbly resigned themselves to death.

  8. Numbly they followed on--Dor and Jon and Jak and the two youngsters.

  9. Hawksworth carried the sitar and followed numbly as Jadar led the way back into the tiny marble room.

  10. Now he stared numbly back, as though awakened from a nightmare.

  11. Numbly I seized the telephone book and looked up the number of one of the town's three doctors.

  12. Paralyzed, not knowing what else to do, Grant numbly fastened the hooks of her brassiere.

  13. Numbly he recognized the countenances which were turned toward him.

  14. After a few moments, he took his hands away and looked numbly from the screen as Dirdon smirked.

  15. Shell he come and makee blow up--vely blave man--plenty numbly one fightee man.

  16. She was half off the sofa before realization stabbed her, and she sank back numbly into her desolation.

  17. As for Chris, she stood numbly gazing after him till only the panels of the door met her look.

  18. He seemed to be numbly waiting for something.

  19. Then in consort with his debonair image, his Siamese twin in the mirror, he put his palm on his forehead for it was aching numbly, and more numbly was his heart.

  20. Shaken by the terrific velocity of the arctic gale he numbly clambered to his feet, then stooped with a stiff awkward motion to retrieve a Winchester rifle which lay half buried in the snow beside the blurred imprint of his body.

  21. There they halted, glittering eyes peering through the slots in their helmets to fix themselves upon the rigid prisoners who stood numbly resigned to death.

  22. The light was out, and for a moment I stared numbly at the dark, half-filled shelves.

  23. Finally, though, I managed to get up and numbly put the calendar away.

  24. Wearily, he pulled himself over the last barrier and fell numbly to the floor, where he lay for long minutes fighting for breath.

  25. His arms ached, his shoulders seemed deadened; he clung numbly to the wall and searched for another path.

  26. Numbly he swung the cabinet doors wider, peered into the shadows, groped inside.

  27. Walton glanced numbly from the dead Ludwig on the floor to the live one standing opposite him.

  28. When the Solar Guard captain signed off and his image faded from the teleceiver screen, Astro and Roger numbly complied with Newton's abrupt orders, bringing the ship to a dead stop in space and opening the starboard air lock.

  29. Paralyzed with horror at the awful death hissing there a scant five feet away, she seemed rooted to the ground; for the life of her she could not move hand or foot, standing numbly there waiting for the end.

  30. As the flame leaped from the muzzle to his breast he numbly lowered the rifle, turned half around, and walking forward a few steps, clutched blindly at the air and sank limply to the ground.

  31. She passed her hand numbly over her forehead, mechanically adjusting a stray wisp of hair.

  32. Numbly the thought came to her of how long she had waited for this.

  33. She felt dull, numbly troubled, and in addition a shadow of apprehension was now creeping upon her.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "numbly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.