Definition of Numbly

emotionlessly or without expression

Examples of Numbly in a sentence

After hearing excuse after excuse, the teacher listened numbly to her student’s twentieth excuse for not having his homework.  🔊

Worried that her mother was going into shock, the news of her dog’s death made the mother to sit numbly in her chair.  🔊

The students sat numbly in their desks listening to the boring lecture drag on for two hours.  🔊

Jared stood numbly wondering what to do next as the handcuffs were slapped on his wrists.  🔊

As an act of defiance, the prisoners stood numbly at attention avoiding the glare of the warden.  🔊

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