3 Sentences With "benumbs"

How to use benumbs in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "benumbs" and check conjugation/comparative form for "benumbs". Mastering all the usages of "benumbs" from sentence examples published by news publications.

type: All Declarative Interrogative Exclamative

structure: All Simple Compound Complex Compound-Complex

length: All <=10 words 10-20 words 20-30 words 30-50 words

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.
Jebb comments here that νάρκισσος is the flower of imminent death with its fragrance being νάρκη or narcotic, emphasised by its pale white colour. Just as Persephone reaching for the flower heralded her doom, the youth Narcissus gazing at his own reflection portended his death. Plutarch refers to this in his Symposiacs as follows, "and the daffodil, because it benumbs the nerves and causes a stupid narcotic heaviness in the limbs, and therefore Sophocles calls it the ancient garland flower of the great (that is, the earthy) gods." This reference to Sophocles' "crown of the great Goddesses", here is the source of the commonly quoted phrase in the English literature "Chaplet of the infernal Gods" incorrectly attributed to Socrates.