How to Use mind-numbing in a Sentence

mind-numbing

adjective
  • 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 new language of the internet is both mind-numbing and irresistible.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • If Baltimore avoids mind-numbing penalties, the Ravens have a few matchup advantages that should lead to a win.
    — Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Erickson came up with the concept while working a mind-numbing gig at a door factory.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 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
  • And after 14 hours of mind-numbing running, scrambling, and power hiking, I was smitten.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • Not Cleaning Your Grout Cleaning grout can be a mind-numbing task, but leaving it can make your otherwise spotless bathroom look grimy and old.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Our protagonist wishes to escape the mind-numbing monotony of the family farm and dreams of becoming a glamorous movie star.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • On the highway, the car tracks your gaze and head position to make sure your eyes stay on the road the entire time—arguably more depressing and mind-numbing than regular highway driving.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • On the highway, the car tracks your gaze and head position to make sure your eyes stay on the road the entire time—arguably more depressing and mind-numbing than regular highway driving.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
  • It’s used to describe the mind-numbing content found on social media and the internet, as well as the subsequent negative impact this can have on our brain health.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Anyone who knows anything about the last two decades of CU football understands why this qualifies as mind-numbing success.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • After a few mind-numbing steps, this reaction makes yet another molecule called G3P. Two of them combine to form a sugar — one more brick in the edifice that is a plant.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • There are the mind-numbing, soul-sucking, nihilistic losses that make this season feel pointless, that make fans and players feel hopeless, that make the franchise look directionless.
    — Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • MetLife had to fashion an environment in which women could be hired en masse, assured of safety and respectability, and assigned to the mind-numbing tasks that kept the engine of insurance purring.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • But, also typical of Mickelson, there were some mind-numbing mistakes.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Mara’s rationale for retaining both his GM and coach, meanwhile, was mind-numbing confirmation that the Giants no longer have any real standards.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Over the longer term, the statistical projections quickly rose to mind-numbing absurdity.
    — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023

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