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How To Use paralyze In A Sentence

• From a mail-order house she ordered a battery-operated galvanic device which applied the stimulation of low-voltage electrical current to his paralyzed limbs.
• T.e spectacle Butch Brewster beheld was indeed one to paralyze that pachydermic collegian, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., the sunny-souled, irrepressible Senior, danced madly about on the tiger-skin rug in midfloor, evidently laboring under the delusion that he was a lunatical Hottentot at T. Haviland Hicks Senior
• I was roped to Jim, but it was of no use; my feet were paralyzed and slipped on the bare rock, and he said it was useless to try to go that way, and we retraced our steps.
• Most patients succumb when the diaphragm and rib muscles become paralyzed, and breathing becomes impossible.
• The scientists then injected those neurons into the lumbar spinal cords of the paralyzed rats.
• The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
• One such problem that was discussed was selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that Dr. Koplewicz described as "when kids are chatterboxes at home, and yet are literally paralyzed in strange situations. Child Mind Institute Luncheon
• She became paralyzed eight years ago when she fell off a stool and broke her thigh.
• As we all know, my wife is paralyzed from the waist down.
• With promises such as regrown spinal-cord tissue allowing the paralyzed to walk again, many people find it hard to draw the line and say no. Archive 2005-06-01