What is "numbly"

Usage examples of "numbly".

Molly Grue busied herself with the cooking pot, stirring the soup and seasoning it, bustling numbly.

Beth walked over to the nearest chair and sat down numbly, staring at acre after acre of randomly shelved, uncatalogued, unindexed books.

The wizard looked at him numbly and Parrail shook him bodily before urging him into the narrow shadow cast by the crude walkway that offered their few token guards a vantage point.

Anne went numbly through her daily routine, up at seven, off to the photography studio, then back home to her apartment.

Adam nodded numbly, taking courage from the fact that there was not a hint of a suggestion that Poly might not be found.

She left it in Troy, New York and rented an airboat, numbly astonished that her mind continued to function even to this extent.

Numbly, Liu Han waited for the little scaly devils to seize her daughter, or perhaps to shoot her down on the spot.

He watched numbly as the Nonman was drawn upright as though by a wire.

Anne numbly followed the man named Artore along a rutted road delimited by juniper and waxweed, into the hilly country that stretched beyond sight of the river.

Steve stared numbly at John, then around at other people who were being assisted onto the backs of the centaurs before it fully sank in that they were being offered rides.

Too caught off guard to argue and still shellshocked from her discovery, Claudia gave in numbly when Garth announced his plans.

Numbly, his feet found the pedals and he biked on, faster and faster, bending over the handlebars to cut down the wind resistance, picking up speed until he was nearly flying along.

They paid their price and sat numbly in clumps on the bleachers waiting as long as it took for his show to begin.

She followed numbly, barefooted and shivering in her chemisette and pantaloons.

I wondered numbly if he was capable of punishing all Buck for the lackluster way he had been welcomed to the throne.