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
Predation is a driving force in the evolution of anti-predator strategies, and death feigning, characterized by immobility in response to threats, is a common defensive mechanism across various animal species.
From Science Daily • Oct. 2, 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
Their sweet Leader returned to them, rock-cold in the iron immobility of death.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
