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How to use numbly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word numbly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The original film ended with Katharine Ross numbly pushing her shopping cart down the grocery aisle.
Joel nodded numbly, taking a seat in the back of the shuttlecraft that would transport them to the main ship.
Dressing for the trip home, I stared numbly at the clothes hanging in my closet.
Shannon stared numbly at her boyfriend, shocked completely out of her wits.
He paused for a moment, collecting his thoughts I guess, as I sat looking at him numbly.
He numbly donned his tuxedo and then got the rest of himself ready.
I picked at my food numbly as my mind tried to assess the situation.
The crabs twitched and blew frothy bubbles, showing off their freshness with an occasional contraction of a pincer, as they lolled numbly in a shallow ice-filled tray.
I crumpled to our battered couch and sat there numbly, watching the images on the twelve-inch black-and-white screen.
I was struck by the thought of how we sometimes vote here, by numbly raising our hands.
Boyle and I help him back to his desk, where he sits numbly, beyond the help of those who would help him.
He would not, as he walked out of his Chiswick house into the sunshine, have considered that by lunchtime he would be staring numbly at her dead body.
She numbly did her master's bidding over 42 days.
Automatically, numbly, Jane took her usual position in a corner chair, near the magazines, with their hopeful pictures of perfect houses, futures that might be hers, if only they could fit into that tiny universe inside her.
Numbly peering at her drawn face, he drew back her sleeve without looking to feel for a pulse.
Examples from Classical Literature
Shandor read, numbly, his mind twisting in protest as the picture unfolded.
Maria obeyed, but she did that numbly, without any realization of the task.
They knelt together, and Hyacinth, numbly indifferent, felt his hand grasped and held.
Beardsley stood numbly for a moment, struggling against a welter of panic.
She walked blindly, numbly to her room, assisted by her uncle, the Count.
A standby pattern lighted the screen, and I stared at it numbly.
Her eyes vacant and numbly fixed, she rose slowly to her feet.
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