Sentence examples for turn numb from inspiring English sources

The water from the tap is icy and our fingers turn numb.

After a while viewers turn numb to even the best material, nodding like professional comedians who acknowledge a colleague's joke not by laughing but by saying, "Funny".

Mulled wine is often so choked up with cinnamon and clove you can no longer detect wine and your taste buds turn numb.

Her hands would turn numb; her cheeks would ache.

Though a wet suit kept my body reasonably well insulated, my exposed hands were freezing and turning numb.

In the darkest, dreariest hours of last year's N.B.A. lockout, when the rhetoric had gone cold and faces had turned numb, league officials clung tightly to two goals: lower costs and competitive balance.

She was smoking a cigarette but the cigarette had gone out and her arm had turned numb, not from the cold but from the ligature of its own hanging weight.

Typical flavorings of garlic, red pepper, onions, ginger, fish sauce and soy sauce pervade cabbage and cuisine alike; it is an assault on the palate that is the opposite of ice cream but with a similar effect: your mouth turns numb but you want more.

At the 15mph cruising speed any exposed skin quickly turns numb.

At a 15-mph cruising speed, any exposed skin quickly turns numb.

At 14, Mr. Hyman recounts in his book, her arms would go numb when she turned her head, and she was found to have two bulging spinal discs, a herniated disc and two stress fractures.