immobility
Example Sentences
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Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
"If I’m being honest, I also didn’t want to admit to the depth of my disability. I had muscle spasms and immobility on my left side, and I tried to hide it," she said.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce flagellated cells with two rearward-extending flagella through budding under conditions of prey scarcity.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023
That matters, Wooldridge continues, because “The rate of single parenting is the most significant predictor of social immobility in the country.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Nivea would pull Clara’s braids and that would be enough to wake her daughter from her mad distraction and return the saltcellar to immobility.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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