immobile
Example Sentences
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The 20-year-old was initially diagnosed with tonsillitis and prescribed antibiotics, however his condition deteriorated and he became immobile with severe leg pain.
From BBC
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 Literature
Held on to a couple of key catches at slip, but also looked immobile in the cordon.
From BBC
Predictably too, the greatest burden of taxes fell on the most immobile, who lost their employment, not on the corporations that formally bore the burden of the tax.
Mr. Bird emphasizes that land is easy to borrow against because “it is both immobile and extremely durable.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
