immobility
Example Sentences
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But some of the townspeople say an Italian problem more daunting than climate change is the real culprit for the ferry’s immobility since May.
From New York Times
These idle giants rarely suffer from maladies such as blood clots, which can occur in humans experiencing only temporary bouts of immobility and can be deadly.
From Scientific American
“I wanted the film to have a moment of true sacredness in which we can still feel the emotion of this day through the immobility of the girls,” Rohrwacher says.
From Los Angeles Times
Because of the silence of the soundtrack and the immobility of the camera, time seems to slow down, and action mutates into abstraction.
From New York Times
Jurors heard her death was a result of "inflammation and infection in extensive areas of ulceration arising from obesity and its complications, and immobility in a girl with spina bifida and hydrocephalus".
From BBC
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