Sample Sentences forinsensate (auto-selected)
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The same voice that had pulled me back to earth many times, from fractal glue-sniffing skies where I laid open-eyed and insensate on the bed, gazing at the impressive blue-white explosions on the ceiling.† (source)
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But where has the universe hidden a word under its outer layer of biology, geometry, or insensate rock?† (source)
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Seriously frostbitten, lying insensate in his tent, at least for the time being he was unable even to speak.† (source)
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Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can't.† (source)
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Summer of 1918—Breath of hope that sweeps over the scorched fields, raging fever of impatience, of disappointment, of the most agonising terror of death, insensate question: Why?† (source)
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The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter—the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.† (source)
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She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick.† (source)
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To an unromantic eye, the Institute had the look of a Spanish prison or a fortress beleaguered not by an invading force but by the more threatening anarchy of the twentieth century buzzing insensately outside the Gates of Legrand.† (source)
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Pearce, delirious and insensate with terror, began screaming out of exhaustion and terror.† (source)
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The squadron stood insensate, bereft of everything human but Doc Daneeka, who roosted dolorously like a shivering turkey buzzard beside the closed door of the medical tent, his stuffed nose jabbing away in thirsting futility at the hazy sunlight streaming down around him.† (source)
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The gunslinger laughed deprecatingly, and the insensate walls made the sound into a loon-like wheeze.† (source)
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Theirs was the demented cruelty of egocentric children, and somehow this made their insensate beastliness much more heartbreaking.† (source)
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The woman lay sprawled on the heat-curled grass between the house and the fire, deaf to their calls, deaf to the cries of the blind man standing over her, ignorant and insensate, as though she had departed her body and left it heaving on the shores of the world.† (source)
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But that is of another time and place, another Reich, and the boy is banished into the farthest shadows, the horror receding and fading with him as the doomed ex-Obersturmbannfuhrer scribbles indefatigably away, justifying his bestial deeds in the name of insensate authority, call of duty, blind obedience.† (source)
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She was not an insensate piece of property, to be taken up or laid down at his convenience.† (source)
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Your lighter boxes of family papers went up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a great dining-table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee.† (source)
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