immobile

Example Sentences

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"Haven't stood on my feet in over a week... been in a hospital bed immobile since my race," she said in a social media post.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Speaking to BBC News NI, her daughter Fiona McAreavey said her mum, who was immobile and incontinent, lay on a trolley in a hospital corridor for 15 hours.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Mr. Bird emphasizes that land is easy to borrow against because “it is both immobile and extremely durable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Patients have told File on 4 Investigates how they were left immobile or addicted to painkillers after receiving the NexGen knee implant, because it ended up slipping out of place.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

There they saw an enormous—and enormously upright—hawk sitting immobile on the back of the front-row bus seat, his claws digging terrifyingly into the plastic not-leather cushion.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness