IMMOBILITY in a Sentence

Learn IMMOBILITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for IMMOBILITY, such as:

1. The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks.
2. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility.
3. The bushes shook, the grass swayed for a time, and then everything stood still in attentive immobility.
4. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services.
5. Modern armies cannot afford the luxury of immobility, as they are vulnerable to attack while standing still.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMOBILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immobility
 n.  quality of not moving; remaining in place
Classic Sentence:
1  This form was lying face downward, flat on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the immobility of death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
2  Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
3  For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in inertia or in immobility.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
4  His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
5  Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  She was tall, dark, severe, with something Indian-like in the rigid immobility of her face.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
7  The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
8  The bushes shook, the grass swayed for a time, and then everything stood still in attentive immobility.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
9  Immobility being the chief characteristic of that whole which the person formed portion of, the discontinuance of immobility in any quarter suggested confusion.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Example Sentence:
1  Modern armies cannot afford the luxury of immobility, as they are vulnerable to attack while standing still.