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

Held on to a couple of key catches at slip, but also looked immobile in the cordon.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

At the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., Rodney Taylor, a double amputee, was rendered nearly immobile.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

She spent her mornings immobile in her chair, looking out the window at the bustle of the street, and observing the gradual decline of the neighborhood that in her youth had been so elegant.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende