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

Patients have told File on 4 Investigates how they were left immobile or addicted to painkillers after receiving the NexGen knee implant, because it ended up slipping out of place.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

Will suddenly realised that his tradition-minded family had been standing, patiendy immobile, waiting for five minutes while he read his letter.

From "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper