IMMOVABLE in a Sentence

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Their anxious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMOVABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immovable
 a.  not able or intended to be moved
 n.  property consisting of houses and land
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Elinor, while she waited in silence and immovable gravity, the conclusion of such folly, could not restrain her eyes from being fixed on him with a look that spoke all the contempt it excited.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
2  "I'll show you a wrist," repeated Mr. Jaggers, with an immovable determination to show it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  My reply was so Unexpected, that Mr. Jaggers put the handkerchief back into his pocket without completing the usual performance, folded his arms, and looked with stern attention at me, though with an immovable face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
4  She sat upright in her arm-chair, with a stately, immovable, passionless air, that it seemed as if nothing could disturb.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
5  He was conscious of this, and put a constraint upon his head; but his keeping that immovable, and sitting rolling his eyes like a piece of machinery, did not mend the matter at all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
6  The otherwise immovable Miss Murdstone laughed contemptuously in one short syllable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
7  My aunt, very pale, and with deep lines in her face, sat immovable until I had finished; when some stray tears found their way to her cheeks, and she put her hand on mine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
8  She sat immovable beside me; but, again I saw the stray tears on her face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
9  She did not, indeed, expect Lily to remain equally immovable: she had all the American guardian's indulgence for the volatility of youth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  He remained immovable, with the lowering forehead she had grown to detest.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
11  In the meanwhile, the gravity of Chingcachgook remained immovable.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  Their anxious and eager looks were baffled by the deceptive light, or rested only on naked rocks, and straight and immovable trees.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  All eyes now were turned on Uncas, who stood leaning against the ragged rock, in immovable composure.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
15  He arose from the earth, and moving past the immovable form of Uncas, placed himself in a dignified attitude before the offender.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
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