How to Use immobile in a Sentence

immobile

adjective
Definition of immobilenext
Synonyms for immobilenext
  • The accident left her immobile.
  • The tranquilizer made the animal immobile.
  • Now, the shells of clams, snails, and immobile boats litter the lakebed.
    — National Geographic, 20 May 2017
  • Now, the shells of clams, snails, and immobile boats litter the lakebed.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 20 May 2017
  • One of the assailants then briefly tried to pull the third, immobile man away, but gave up the attempt and fled.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Then the ligaments and nerves were damaged, and the whole left hand was immobile.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • His legs felt like the trunks of Sequoia trees and his entire left side was immobile.
    — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 20 May 2020
  • With no more than ten feet between us, Death stands immobile, garbed in a dirty, dusty cloak with a hood.
    — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Now, unable to bend his leg, Kameron is immobile for at least the summer.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 15 June 2022
  • When a new dancer enters the space, the others are often lying immobile on the ground.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2022
  • One shot to settle down As adults, corals are immobile.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • El Rivero lives in home for the elderly and has hip problems that have left her immobile.
    — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Okay, so these are tiny, immobile workaholic bugs that eat rocks.
    — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The roommate was immobile, but cognizant and could yell.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 13 June 2019
  • Many of the residents are too fragile or immobile and cannot climb the stairs of the 14-story building to get to food and water.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, miamiherald, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The video shows LaPierre failing to kill the animal with three shots at point-blank range as the animal lies immobile on the ground.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Kim Frey is worried about the health of her 89-year-old mother, who is immobile and lives at Life Care Center.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Calais Campbell played with a thigh injury but looked tight and immobile.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Crews put one of the injured men in a stretcher-like basket, keeping him flat and immobile.
    — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2023
  • These immobile, tubular structures sit on the front of an owl’s face like a pair of built-in binoculars.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • The man had gotten himself out of the car and bystanders came to him to hold his neck and spine immobile to try to avoid spinal cord injury, Zellmann said.
    — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2018
  • On the flip side, the Titans have to view the chance to get after immobile Nick Foles as a rare opportunity to win up front.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Angela Tapia told the 88-year-old woman, who has Parkinson’s disease and is immobile. Salazar, 64, watched and counted down out loud from the foot of the bed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In 1974 the performance artist Marina Abramovic stood naked and immobile in a Naples gallery.
    — Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • Curl the barbell up and away from your body while keeping your shoulder blades, hips, and elbows immobile.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 26 Dec. 2017
  • About two weeks after flying back to her dorm room, still on the treatment, Prince felt feverish, weak and immobile.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • What Dallas does best is get after the quarterback, which could result in a long night for the immobile Matt Ryan.
    — Catena Media, oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Would your new MacBook Pro stay immobile on your desk for the vast majority of its life?
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Perhaps the immobile animal was trying to blend in with its surroundings.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
  • As a montage of flashback photos featuring Janet since childhood flickered by, the central screen rose to reveal the superstar standing immobile on the circular stage wrapped in a purple hooded cloak.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024

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