PARALYSE in a Sentence

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I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARALYSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
paralyse
 v.  make unable to move or act; impair the progress or functioning of
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Again the poor man groaned; he looked as if he dared not move; fear, either of death or of something else, appeared almost to paralyse him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
5  Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  But she was getting cold; yet the overwhelming inertia of her inner resentment kept her there as if paralysed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  The potency may easily come back, even if the muscles of the hips and legs are paralysed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  We set out cold, we arrived at church colder: during the morning service we became almost paralysed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  My pulse stopped: my heart stood still; my stretched arm was paralysed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  This was still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
13  See, both his right arm and leg and the whole side of his face are paralysed.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  For an instant my heart stood still, and I would have screamed out, only that I was paralysed.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  I was paralysed by the sight of such grief.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
Example Sentence:
1  A stroke paralysed half his face.
2  He was partially paralysed by the fall.
3  He is paralysed down his left side as a result of polio.
4  Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.