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

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

He says deaths on planes are "very uncommon" and that people are more likely to die on longer flights because of the physical toll of being immobile for a long period.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

There they saw an enormous—and enormously upright—hawk sitting immobile on the back of the front-row bus seat, his claws digging terrifyingly into the plastic not-leather cushion.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness