immobility
Example Sentences
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But while immobility is the characteristic material feature of land, it is financially mobile, in that its value can rise and fall.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 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
For some people, muscle loss worsens, leading to falls, immobility, a loss of autonomy and a condition called sarcopenia2.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024
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
I found myself unconsciously urging the spacecraft at least to stand on its tiptoes, as if this laboratory, designed for immobility, were perversely refusing to manage even a little hop.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
