Sentence examples for numb against from inspiring English sources

When he awakened, his left hand had gone numb against the trigger guard of his shotgun.

Eilis numbs herself against nostalgia until letters from home awaken her homesickness.

The scholars "lived among sullen stunted locals (many web-footed, rumour had it) who numbed themselves against the weather with opium made from the local poppy".

** Morning, Rob — Hope your weekend was an effective numbing agent against the spiritual oppression that is your every waking work hour!

Sunday night's incident in India's "rape capital" was gut-wrenchingly brutal even for a city which has become numb to crimes against women.

Splice MOs against numb and numblike pre-mRNA were designed as follows: nbl- MO1, 5'-CCCACTCTGAGGGTAGAAAAATTGA-3'; nb- MO1, 5'-CACACAGCAAAACTTACTTTTTTAA-3'.

Then came a stiff neck against Los Angeles, a numb foot in Philadelphia, a bruised hand against Milwaukee and a pulled muscle in his side in St . Louis

This behavior reached caricature levels when I was unable to start writing my 90-page senior thesis until 72 hours before it was due, an experience that ended with me in the campus doctor's office learning that lack of blood sugar was the reason my hands had gone numb and curled up against my will.

I would lean against the wall and push myself against it to numb the pain.

I'm only six feet tall, yet my toes often go numb after being squished up against the seat in front of me.

"Difret" (which can mean "courage" or "rape" in Amharic) excels at capturing the mind-numbing, bang-your-head-against-the-wall bureaucracy of much of sub-Saharan Africa, and at showing the cultural context of a place where bride kidnapping is not so strange or rare.