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

Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience.

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