CEREBRAL in a Sentence

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For CEREBRAL, below is one of 12 sentences:
For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.

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 Meanings and Examples of CEREBRAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cerebral
 a.  relating to the brain or cerebrum; intellectual rather than emotional
Classic Sentence:
1  For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  But it'll come, in time, when we've shoved the cerebral stone away a bit, the money and the rest.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  For many weeks he lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by the wounds themselves.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
5  We're only cerebrating make-shifts, mechanical and intellectual experiments.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  The patient died from acute cerebral hemorrhage.
2  The patient died from acute cerebral haemorrhage.
3  Washington struck me as a precarious place from which to publish such a cerebral newspaper.
4  The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.
5  Ballmer is a brash, exuberant, natural-born salesman — especially compared with the cerebral Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
6  Mathematics problems sometimes require much cerebration.