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How to use the word paralyzed in a Sentence? Page #2

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She was given the information this morning from the neurologist that she will be paralyzed from her chest down, but all she talks about since the news is that she can’t play soccer anymore — the game she’s trained her whole life for.

Michelle Woodhead

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm 70 -- uh, 100 -- 91 years old, i'm paralyzed on one side.

Sharon Van Leer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When I left the hospital, my left arm and fingers were nearly completely paralyzed. By that, I mean it pretty much hung limp at my side. I had to move it with my right hand.

Ken Meeks

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We have lost contact with all of our polling agents, our campaign workers are also affected. This is a dirty tech attack on us, we have been paralyzed.

Lim Guan Eng

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The children were paralyzed by fear of Haque, who they understood to have connections to terrorists and who essentially told them that a violent fate would befall them if they told anyone what he was doing.

Dean Haydon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thanks to the miracle of modern science he has pulled through, but is still in a very fragile state, his right arm has been paralyzed and at this moment, has limited use of his hands and legs. In addition, he’s dealing with respiratory issues that demand constant care.

The GoFundMe page

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Both had polio and were paralyzed, they defamed the name of Afghans. This is a terrorist attack.

Rais Abdul Khaliq

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He fired only one bullet. After the first bullet, people and the guards tackled him and didn’t allow him to fire more. both had polio and were paralyzed.

Rais Abdul Khaliq

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A proverb in the mouth of a fool is as useless as a paralyzed leg.

proverb

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6 years ago

Sometimes, we get almost paralyzed by our fear or anxiety that it's difficult to figure out on our own what our first steps need to be.

Lynn Bufka

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This is an exponentially harder problem, our study is the first in the world, to my knowledge, to take someone paralyzed and give him the ability to both reach and grasp objects... so that he can regain the ability to perform functional activities of daily living.

Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Steven was an exceptional human being who should not be defined by the shooting that paralyzed him, but by what he accomplished in life after it happened.

Michael Palladino

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Patients who suffer from sexual addictions enter treatment paralyzed by shame and humiliation. They describe themselves as “evil” and “defective.” They desperately want to be liberated from the crush of their destructive behavior, but can’t get out from under it’s demoralizing weight

Paul Hokemeyer

added by anonymous
7 years ago

We’ve just been paralyzed so far, but hopefully this is something that can get us over the hurdle.

Peiter Zatko

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

All this violence and barbarism has paralyzed the French left since January 2015, it has lost its bearings and is clinging to a mindset that is out of touch with reality.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We expect it to be paralyzed 120 days.

Luis Morillo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is a paralyzed government that needs any help it can get, even if Lula himself has lost some support, he still knows how to mobilize the party militants. The government will hitch a ride on that.

Carlos Melo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Nearly every surviving detainee has emerged from custody having suffered unimaginable abuses, for ordinary Syrians, the specter of arrest or abduction, and the near-inevitable horrors that follow, have paralyzed communities across the country.

Paulo Pinheiro

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was the perfect fit for me, and I feel like I can live life, it wasn't something where, like, now I'm happy. I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed, and, you know, it keeps me from just complete staid paralysis.

Sarah Silverman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Look, everybody's evolving, i remember when Hillary, when the children first came to the border, and Hillary said, 'Oh they can't just show up, they have to be sent back home.' She's not there anymore. You remember when Hillary, what was it, in 2008? Yeah, it was 2008, and they asked Hillary a question about driver's licenses for the undocumented. And she was paralyzed.

Luis Gutiérrez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We Social Democrats are the stable factor in this federal government, without us, the German government would already be paralyzed due to the argument within the CDU and CSU (over migrants) and our country would be in major difficulties.

Friday Gabriel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I fractured my skull, broke my back and the damage to my spinal cord left me paralyzed from the waist down, at the time, people who found me lying on the concrete thought I was dead. Even doctors predicted I was going to die.

Mark Pollock

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I woke up paralyzed, it was devastating, i told Brad to go find someone normal.

Liz SodenParker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was waiting for him to shoot me in the head. When he shot me in the back, I said, ‘I’m going to be paralyzed,’ and then I waited, it goes real quick. Your world goes in front of you, and it did, real fast, and I said, ‘I’m ready.’.

Vicki Gardner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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