How to Use mind-numbing in a Sentence

mind-numbing

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• Jules is the reason Mary Pat gets through each mind-numbing day.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• The mind-numbing pace of a 3-hour, 23-minute game at Dodger Stadium.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
• It’s been a hard few weeks here on the sports money beat, replete with some mind-numbing numbers.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• If that’s the sort of sparkling repartee that made it into Rennervations, how mind-numbing was the stuff that got cut?
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
• The war in Gaza has settled into a mind-numbing pattern of violence, bloodshed, and death.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
• No reporter’s task is less glamorous, or more mind-numbing, than sifting through the dozens of meeting agendas that City Hall posts each week.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Chester, Montana, clocked in as the coldest spot in the nation when the temperature plunged to a mind-numbing minus 54 degrees.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• Despite the mind-numbing complexities of high finance, the story of SVB turned out to be pretty simple.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• The Rapids took part in the record-setting affair on Saturday night, a 0-0 tie at home against the Houston Dynamo that was their mind-numbing seventh scoreless affair of the season.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The sides spent eight hours going over nitty-gritty details about the use of AI, screenwriter fees, mind-numbing residual formulas and more.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Instead of mind-numbing worksheets, take addicting lessons online and become fluent in up to 25 new languages with Rosetta Stone.
  — New Atlas, 30 July 2024
• The trailer lacks the kind of pyrotechnics that get viewers excited, and the chatter among fans is, well, nonexistent, even when the only other Housewives on offer at the moment is the mind-numbing New Jersey.
  — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 24 May 2024
• Mind you, this Mets team has demonstrated plenty of warts so far with some mind-numbing sloppy fielding at times and their catchers are 0-for-25 throwing out base runners going into the weekend.
  — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024
• But, also typical of Mickelson, there were some mind-numbing mistakes.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Over the longer term, the statistical projections quickly rose to mind-numbing absurdity.
  — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Forty-one road games a year; practice, drills, and weight-lifting every day; mind-numbing film and scouting sessions; family, friends, employers, and teammates alike all demanding something from you.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• Virgin Suicide Coppola grounds his mind-numbing plot with something any American relate to — a monolithic pop girlie.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 May 2024
• What should be a sparkling recounting of a pivotal moment in U.S. history is flattened, becoming a mind-numbing and belabored affair of wig-wearing men shouting at each other in dark rooms.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• Yet Judge Griesa was facing a different kind of nightmare scenario: endless, mind-numbing litigation.
  — Gregory Makoff, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
• Several times in recent weeks, the pitcher has followed this new routine, slipping into a mind-numbing trance as mental skills coach Brent Walker hypnotizes him — literally — while seated by his side.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• In a cavernous convention hall in Northern California, at the end of a long, loooong day of important, yes, but eventually mind-numbing presentations about native plants, nearly 200 scientists, botanists and students had had enough.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• But with the recent explosion of products in the category, finding a quality powder can be a mind-numbing experience full of confusing acronyms, unpronounceable ingredients, and suspicious health claims.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 8 July 2024
• But with the recent explosion of products in the category, finding a quality powder can be a mind-numbing experience full of confusing acronyms, unpronounceable ingredients, and suspicious health claims.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024