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    Use "immobility" in a sentence

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    immobility


    1. The very idea locked his body into immobility


    2. Beth mentally swore that she wouldn’t allow herself to be terrorized into immobility, but still she couldn’t move


    3. Suddenly, the good front tire exploded, impaled by the sharp point of a rock, and he snowplowed into total immobility


    4. JESUS? She was frozen into immobility as the big bazooka smiled and called her name


    5. Paralyzed into statue-like immobility, she now saw as if in a dream, her love, snatch from the hands of a defender close by, a bow and an arrow, which was launched with a quickness almost beyond perception


    6. Q: This life of inner immobility, will it not affect one’s health?


    7. M: Immobility and silence are not inactive


    8. Immobility is death


    9. like it, I was definitely not terrified to the point of immobility


    10. If, instead, we are wounded, we are forced to move out of the immobility of our

    11. immobility; the Aristotelian view that states that there are two separate worlds,


    12. cartilage that had build up over the months of immobility


    13. A paralysis of horror gripped her, for where there should have been the immobility of death, there was movement: a slow twitching, a flexing and writhing of ebon limbs—an awful scream burst from her lips as she broke the bonds that held her mute and motionless


    14. Immobility has the same


    15. A single stride brought him to the dais and he laid his hand on the ivory body – snatched it away as if it had encountered hot iron instead of the cold immobility of death


    16. Martha‘s steady as a drum roll breathing and immobility a sign of her awareness


    17. Gently, he tugged on the handle of the solid glass door, frustrated at its immobility


    18. The supply of blood to the brain was interrupted to such a degree that it resulted in complete immobility


    19. He ran his fingers down her flank where he knew she was ticklish but her immobility and rising excitement meant it produced only a new increment of pleasure


    20. Theocracy lives by the opposite principle: it is born, lives, and thrives on immobility, death, and the irrational

    21. A general pervasive atmosphere of intoxication and immobility rendered the shuttle-slider an unimaginably lucrative business


    22. “How many types of tables are there?” she stammered before an unexpected revelation of her own ignorance and the embarrassment of the rapid onset immobility of her hands


    23. 'And now the note-book?' I asked; for he had relapsed into immobility, and was watching the socks with abstracted eyes


    24. The immobility of Frau Dremmel, who moved nothing but her eyes, the dank bare passage, the rush of cold smell that had escaped out of the one door in it, the bleak air of poverty about her mother-in-law--poverty in some strange way regarding itself as virtuous for no reason except that it was poor--did not make her smiling easy


    25. Soon afterwards she finally faltered into immobility, giving up, sitting now quite still herself in her chair, the flush faded from her cheek, pale and crumpled


    26. Gradually lengthen the contact and his immobility till you can move 60 to 90 feet away from him and back


    27. And being in this state, you would never believe that all of this can appear as quietude and immobility to someone else (in another system of Perception)


    28. Again he was paralysed into immobility, though this time by sheer surprise


    29. Her immobility made her an ideal


    30. Besides the immobility of the table, the whole concept of reading a wine list and having to choose between the New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and the California Riesling, all while they were increasingly conscious that they’d just successfully smuggled a nuclear bomb into the United States and had no idea what they were going to do with it, seemed utterly surreal

    31. immobility, Tom stared with horrific disbelief as he saw his brother flounder with each rise


    32. instantly the immobility of panic melted and I was myself again


    33. The first to emerge was the sense of security so much more perfect than in any small boat I've ever been in; the, as it were, material, stillness, and immobility (though it was a bumpy day)


    34. Indeed, despite its efforts, despite the powerful methods it used to split this ice, the Nautilus was reduced to immobility


    35. "No, my dear fellow," returned the young man, seating himself on the divan; "reassure yourself; we are tottering always, but we never fall, and I begin to believe that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us


    36. From the summit, the apparent immobility of the vast blue distance was broken, here and there, by wisps of smoke and tiny, momentary flashes of glass


    37. Father Corbelan had remained quite motionless for a time with that something vengeful in his immobility which seemed to characterize all his attitudes


    38. He had, when he so willed it, the utter immobility of countenance of a red Indian, and I could not gather from his appearance whether he was satisfied or not with the position of the case


    39. His face was calm with that immobility of expression which betrays the intensity of a mental struggle


    40. With the boundless shadows of the sea behind him, out of his silence and immobility, facing the lofty shapes of the lower peaks crowded around the white, misty sheen of Higuerota, Nostromo laughed aloud again, sprang abruptly to his feet, and stood still

    41. Perched on the edge of the table with slightly averted faces, they felt their shoulders touch, and their eyes remained directed towards an upright shape nearly lost in the obscurity of the inner part of the room, that with projecting head and shoulders, in ghastly immobility, seemed intent on catching every word


    42. The light of the two candles burning before the perpendicular and breathless immobility of the late Senor Hirsch threw a gleam afar over land and water, like a signal in the night


    43. "I understand you all!" cried the other with a violent movement, as shadowy to the doctor's eyes as the persistent immobility of the late Senor Hirsch


    44. preserved the immobility of a disregarded man


    45. A concentrated glare fell upon the leonine white head of old Giorgio against the black fire-place—showed him leaning forward in a chair in staring immobility, surrounded, overhung, by great masses of shadow, his legs crossed, his cheek in his hand, an empty pipe in the corner of his mouth


    46. Behind him the immobility of Mrs


    47. Monygham—floated into her still and sad immobility


    48. There was something in that immobility which reached Linda in the depths of her paradise


    49. The Garibaldino—big, erect, with his snow-white hair and beard—had a monumental repose in his immobility, leaning upon a rifle


    50. Then his head rolled back, his eyelids fell, and the Capataz de Cargadores died without a word or moan after an hour of immobility, broken by short shudders testifying to the most atrocious sufferings



















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    Synonyms for "immobility"

    immobility fixedness stationariness

    "immobility" definitions

    remaining in place


    the quality of not moving