How to Use immobile in a Sentence

immobile

adjective

• 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
• He’s meant to prove his worth to his father with this fight, but a dirty move from his opponent leaves him immobile, squirming, gasping on the floor.
  — Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
• Researchers from the University of Georgia found that Joro spiders would remain immobile for more than an hour when disturbed.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024