Sentence examples for sat numb from inspiring English sources

For three nights he sat numb, impervious to the rain.

Years earlier, she had sat numb as a judge read out her son's sentence, forbidden to scream in a courtroom.

As the film ended, we all just sat there, numb.

I went to the rabbi's study and, with one or two other people there, sat in numb silence.

Pengelly said in 2010 that, when the other officers got back to the safety of their van, "We just sat there, numb with shock, and life was never the same again for any of us".

Do you call your mum or your dad? Do you press the police for more information or sit in numb silence?

We just sat shocked and numb because we couldn't believe what had happened to us.

They sit in numbing lecture halls with 500 classmates; the only instructor they may know is a teaching assistant, and they are, for all intents and purposes, anonymous.

They just sat there, radiating this numb, burned-out cool, this 'you can never reach me' sense of otherness..

Flabbergasted and feeling numb, I sat there thinking of what this meant for the future of our country.

Who hasn't sat through the arse-numbing, four-hour televisual shiva that is the Oscars and thought: 'Has collective amnesia come over The Dolby Theatre?