catatonic
Example Sentences
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"This experience has left Morrissey in a catatonic state."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
And besides, as David Hill of Rolling Stone notes, American sports—which naturally lend themselves to micro-betting with their long pauses and occasionally catatonic pace—were founded to enable wagering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
“I went into a catatonic stage and had a nervous breakdown,” Mercredi wrote in her 2021 book, “Sacred Bundles Unborn.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Shiv — who has to be retrieved from the party one deck below — is practically catatonic when she finds out why she has been summoned.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
Illuminators who lost their referents collapsed, their bodies empty and catatonic, eyes open but not seeing, breathing but not living, until their organs slowly stopped working and they died.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
