Example Sentences

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The catastrophic winds appear to have died down, giving exhausted firefighters aid from the air, but the anxiety level remains paralyzingly high.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

To assuage that fear, Kertzer writes, Pius charted a paralyzingly cautious course to avoid conflict at all costs with the Nazis.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

At the age of 25, I am of a generation of people who have been aware — terrifyingly, paralyzingly aware — of climate change for our entire lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2021

This is the world of Chekhov, after all, where emotions are paralyzingly ambivalent.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2011

I was in that kind of sleep that just feels so paralyzingly restful and deep, like my body had become the mattress.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith