Example Sentences

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Paralyzing traffic is one symptom; the increasingly absurd price of putting a roof over one’s head is another.

From New York Times • May 7, 2018

Paralyzing grief was made plain in a single, breathtaking bit of lace and tulle.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2015

Paralyzing physical disabilities before and after interfered with his movements.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Paralyzing the autocratic government by a strike, it brings its own democratic order into the life of the working city population.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

Paralyzing that sharp, unseen contact had been, but nothing of pain followed it.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham