paralyze

Example Sentences

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Confined for her safety in a small, interior room, Maggie had been sobbing for days, “sick and nearly paralyzed with fright.”

From Literature

In the late 1990s, neurologist Philip Kennedy developed the first BCI to allow a severely paralyzed patient to move a computer cursor using their brain.

From MarketWatch

I had a catastrophic fall at home, which left me paralyzed from the shoulders down.

From The Wall Street Journal

Usually when I got scared I could almost outrun my shadow, but I was beyond being scared, I was paralyzed.

From Literature

I worry regulators within those agencies have forgotten the lessons we learned in 2008 and the panic that paralyzed the world at the time.

From Barron's