Sentence examples for sitting frozen from inspiring English sources

Bankers who lived through those days spoke to me of colleagues sitting frozen before their screens, paralysed.

More than $100 million is sitting frozen in a Swiss bank account once controlled by Raúl Salinas, the brother of a former president of Mexico.

Other financial workers in the City, who were at their desks after Lehman defaulted, described colleagues sitting frozen before their screens, paralysed – unable to act even when there was easy money to be made.

7. Keep in mind that during the party, your host may be doing the following: screaming, crying, knocking on wood, taking off her jersey and waving it over her head, yelling "throw him outta the club!" at the TV, sitting frozen in a particularly lucky pose, googling the referees' home addresses.

I wish I had listened to my friends 20 years earlier, because I could have put those years to much more productive use than sitting around frozen in fear, writer's block and paranoia.

He hated himself for sitting so frozen.

"The money is just sitting there frozen, and they will get that back".

They were often ill when they arrived, from sitting in freezing water up to their waists for hours in rubber boats, sleeping for days without shelter, nearly drowning, and more.

Vicky, the neighbor, sitting opposite, freezes with her mouth open, her fork of food suspended over her plate, staring at Richard with incredulity, and you can see she's about to ask him if he has just said what she thinks she's heard, when her question is rendered redundant because Richard repeats the imperative, with a second-person variation for stress, "Fuck you, Lucinda".

My wife and I, sitting behind Dr. Packard, froze too.

It involves her and a colleague sitting in a freezing cabin outside the venue, testing drugs posted in the amnesty box or confiscated by security in and around the venue.