PARALYZE in a Sentence

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Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARALYZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
paralyze
 v.  make powerless and unable to function; disable
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Their capture would paralyze the North and more than cancel off the defeat on the Mississippi.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  This spectacle seemed to paralyze them, overcome them with a fatal fascination.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
3  Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
4  Secondly it was impossible, because to paralyze the momentum with which Napoleon's army was retiring, incomparably greater forces than the Russians possessed would have been required.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX
5  At length, one evening my enemy resolved to paralyze the resistance he could not conquer.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
6  Her mind stood still as if paralyzed for a long, breathless instant, and then raced forward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Thunderstruck, she stood as if paralyzed while he made his way through the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  For a moment they stood paralyzed and then Suellen and Carreen began to sob and clutch each other's fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Waiting for the doctor were two women, as still as though they were paralyzed, and a man in a railroad brakeman's uniform, holding his bandaged right hand with his tanned left.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Carol dropped the curtain, stood with movement and reflection paralyzed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  "I believe he's paralyzed," laughed Mrs. Merriman.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
12  Miss Ophelia stood silent, perfectly paralyzed with amazement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  This arm is paralyzed; not for a time, but forever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
14  As he had prophesied would be the case, he remained paralyzed in the right arm and the left leg, and had given up all hope of ever enjoying it himself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
15  Presently he made such a sudden movement that I was paralyzed with fear.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
Example Sentence:
1  The bureaucracy will paralyze the entire operation.
2  The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
3  The result of all this agitation is an unsettlement that paralyzes business.