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
  • Yes, this may have been a mind-numbing barrage of percentages.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This doesn’t change the fact that describing someone browsing the web or scrolling without end can be mind-numbing.
    — Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The new language of the internet is both mind-numbing and irresistible.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Erickson came up with the concept while working a mind-numbing gig at a door factory.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • As, too, are road signs, which serve as warm reminders of important people and help soothe souls in mind-numbing traffic.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Once the store is set up, the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the daily routine quickly sets in.
    — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
  • All of the churning can easily lead to mind-numbing exhaustion.
    — Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The actual job for human reinforcers can be mind-numbing.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
  • And through this mind-numbing repetition, Harbaugh achieves his goal.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no excuse for an NFL player to make such a mind-numbing mistake.
    — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The mind-numbing pace of a 3-hour, 23-minute game at Dodger Stadium.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • Who would want a mind-numbing, physically brutal, and poorly paid job in a factory?
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The war in Gaza has settled into a mind-numbing pattern of violence, bloodshed, and death.
    — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
  • 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 entire situation is mind-numbing.
    — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • But, also typical of Mickelson, there were some mind-numbing mistakes.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Then there is the marvel of the mind-numbing, slow shuffle for an hour outside Wembley Park to get on the tube afterwards.
    — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Concurrent with the compound complexity of contemporary cars, most have become mind-numbing thick-as-a-brick tomes.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Over the longer term, the statistical projections quickly rose to mind-numbing absurdity.
    — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 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
  • 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
  • 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

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