Sentence examples for was paralysing from inspiring English sources

This was paralysing, standing there in the bookshop.

The uncertainty over the government's plans was paralysing investment and undermining growth prospects in the country, they warned.

That bold initiative, was soon copied by other governments, proved to be the turning point in the crisis because it addressed the insolvency risk that was paralysing markets.

As a punishment Pushkin, nominally a civil servant, was asked to do some work: to write a report on a plague of locusts that was paralysing the city.

In a sense that was paralysing; on the other hand, I had for years felt I didn't control my body – that is, when people called me names or rubbed me up, my body gradually became less of my own.

I was paralysed.

Axel was paralysed.

"He was paralysed by fear.

My whole body was paralysed.

I was paralysed with embarrassment.

At first, I was paralysed".