Sentence examples for sits immobile from inspiring English sources

It's true that the protesters weren't inviting the president into a conversation, but, as the driver tries to get around them or nudge them along and men in street clothes start to force the demonstrators out of the way, the university president sits immobile or immobilized, the picture of hapless leadership.

A watchful onstage cast sits immobile and silent.

And then he sits immobile, as if welcoming the inevitable, smothering darkness.

Verónica brakes and for a long, long ­moment, Martel's camera holds the   shot of her profile: as she sits immobile and silent in the car.

Paralyzed by a sudden rush of grief, Josie sits immobile by the phone, and tears start running down her face as Tamblyn's camera closes in.

It's not hard to guess the substance of Dawta's allusive accusations: sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, who sits immobile for most of the play's running time, the focus of the argument but somehow unapproachable, untouchable.

He merely continued to sit, immobile, glazed.

He sat immobile as Maher vented his indignation by fiddling with a computer game.

Sponges sit immobile, anchored to rock or rooted in sediment, filtering particles from water.

As the crowd sat immobile and sullen, he ranted against Congo's enemies.

Sitting immobile on a long flight means that massive blood clots can form in the legs.