Sentence examples for lay paralyzed from inspiring English sources

I lay paralyzed as it hollowed and darkened, expanding in every direction with a familiar cruelty.

While the Boston area lay paralyzed by a lockdown, with one terror suspect dead and another on the loose as a massive manhunt filtered through the area's arteries, we got a better sense of the second young man.

Arriving in the bleak midwinter to investigate the murder of an elderly woman as she lay paralyzed in her bed, the city-bred Detective Chief Inspector John Marvel is so appalled to find himself in the boondocks, obliged to waste his talents "on the low and the stupid," that out of sheer spite, he repeatedly subjects the local constable, Jonas Holly, to public humiliation.

He was now lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, and she was on her way to the hotel to request medical leave for him.

Here, children lie paralyzed in rows of beds, their tiny spines punctured by a sniper's gun.

In another instance, Tara Kapur from VICE India, opened up about her eerie experience of feeling like a little boy was watching herself lie paralyzed in her sleep.

XI'AN, China — In the heart of one of China's famed dynastic capitals, now a modern metropolis of eight million, Li Jianli lay partially paralyzed on a hospital bed with his skull smashed in and his speaking ability reduced to a few simple phrases — "yes," "thank you" and so on.

We already had sex, so why didn't he just wake me up?" Instead of kicking his ass, screaming for his roommate, or leaving, I just lay there paralyzed.

'I Have Dreams About the Lovers I Never Had' The stage directions for this excerpt from the play "Carson McCullers: (Historically Inaccurate)" involve the title character lying partly paralyzed in bed in Nyack, N.Y., in 1964, three years before her death, while a visitor, the actress and singer Ethel Waters, sits in a nearby chair.

I just lie there feeling paralyzed and as if some dark and blurry presence is hovering slowly above me.

It was in July 1980 when Barazan Tikriti, Mr. Hussein's half-brother and the head of the secret police, visited Dr. Shahristani as he lay on the floor, partly paralyzed after being tortured.