Sentence examples for held immobile from inspiring English sources

He sat upright in a wheelchair, his head held immobile in a brace to protect it from spasms.

A high point for some was a veterinary procedure in which cows were held immobile in a chute while a vet made an incision in a flank and reached in arm-deep to pull out the ovaries.

Small particles are drawn into the organism's proximity by cilia-induced fluid currents at all times, whereas larger particles may be held immobile at a distance from the cell margin when the cell generates characteristic feeding currents in the surrounding media.

Broken by the chaos following their revolution and confined by an authoritarian history, Russia put itself in an ideological trap, held immobile by Party strongmen with the clever short-sightedness of predators but no interest in the long-term survival of their nation.

The highly developed talon of the hind toe is used to pierce the vital areas of prey while it is held immobile by the front toes.

He had been beaten up and starved, thrown for months into a dark cell crawling with rats, held immobile with his legs pinned in stocks, and strapped with ropes so tightly that his right arm was torn from its socket.

He held himself immobile, with an expression of shame I had never before seen.

Both the privileges and disqualifications of class were rapidly disappearing and men had broken through "the bonds which once held them immobile".

The forearm was held totally immobile using two straps firmly bolted to the desk.

I imagined the fingers of globalization, stretching all the way to the End of the World to hold me, immobile, in Camarinas.

For example, the topsoil tends to hold more immobile nutrients such as phosphorus than the subsoil; by contrast, the subsoil contains more plant-available sulfate ion than the topsoil (Giehl and von Wirén 2014).