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
For Neubauer, it was exciting to see that, next to the described laziness or immobility of drones, the drones have synchronized hyperactivity periods, in which they are the fastest individuals in the colony.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 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
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
