Sentence examples for slightly numb from inspiring English sources

Dr. Glickman noticed that it was slightly numb to the touch.

The Seafood International version is heavy on the chilies, leaving your taste buds slightly numb.

To live like that is to walk through the world always slightly numb and sceptical of what lies ahead.

That may be Edouard Lock's intention, but it leaves you feeling wrung out and slightly numb, rather than uplifted or enlightened.

It is the same with glycerin, lemon and honey, a mum's cure for sore throats that exacerbates before it soothes and you fall asleep with sticky lemon lips and slightly numb tonsils.

The Stella prize judging panel called it a "gripping" work "brimming with honesty" that "mines the psychological damage wrought on a nuclear family by a monstrous personality" through a narrative voice that is "detached, slightly numb and darkly humorous".

Maybe it's because I was stoned and slightly numbed to what was happening, but I wasn't that cut up about it at first.

Designer Yuji Abe elaborated that, because of her losses and newfound vulnerability, Lightning came across as darker, slightly numbed to her surroundings, and "like a puppet, like someone who doesn't quite have her real self inside".

The coldness of the ice slightly numbs your taste buds, easing the strength (and the astringent qualities) of some wines, especially reds.

The local symptoms of victims bitten by the many-banded krait are usually neither serious swelling nor pain; the victims merely feel slightly itchy and numb.

But Davis's life after that was only slightly less mind-numbing.