IMMOBILE in a Sentence

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For IMMOBILE, below is one of 17 sentences:
Dilcey looked at her steadily as she laughed, her face immobile in its dignity, but Scarlett felt that Dilcey understood.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMOBILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immobile
 a.  stationary; incapable of moving or of being moved
Classic Sentence:
1  She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was her immobile bronze face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Dilcey looked at her steadily as she laughed, her face immobile in its dignity, but Scarlett felt that Dilcey understood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  She turned an immobile face to Scarlett and said with dignity: "Thankee, Ma'm."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  There was something about this immobile man which frightened her, so that now the thought of marrying him was fearful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  She looked up into Rhett's immobile face and for a moment she could not speak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  The constable, a young man with thick immobile features, listened.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
7  He hesitated for some moments, with a strangely immobile smile upon his face.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
8  He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was quiet, maybe that was a good sign.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In II
9  He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
10  But Isa was immobile, watching her husband.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
11  Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly immobile for a few moments.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Her illness has made her completely immobile.
2  She could see a figure sitting immobile, facing the sea.
3  Joe remained as immobile as if he had been carved out of rock.
4  It's either be immobile for the rest of her life or go for an operation and see if it'll work.
5  The sudden storm will immobilize the traffic.
6  Always immobilize a broken leg immediately.