Example Sentences

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The shock and horror of the moment were paralyzing.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2023

There were paralyzing moments of reporting one angle for weeks, months, a year, and then all of a sudden saying, “This was all a dead end! How did I let this happen to myself?”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2019

Laura felt that the pressures of her junior year were paralyzing, so she did not return for the spring semester.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

"It's Not The Time For It," said Saturday's banner headline in the state-owned Akhbar Elyom newspaper, urging the nation to end work stoppages which it said were paralyzing the economy and losing Egypt revenue.

From Reuters • Feb. 20, 2011

The water glued them to my body, they were paralyzing my movements.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.