How to Use paralyze in a Sentence

paralyze

verb

• The snake's venom paralyzed the mouse.
• The air strikes have paralyzed the city's transportation system.
• The company was paralyzed by debt.
• The first deep freeze in a decade paralyzed Texas from the Panhandle to the Gulf.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2024
• The disease left Paul paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
• Most of the time, we’re paralyzed by fear: What happens if….
  — Ashley Stahl, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the worst of cases, dachshunds can even be paralyzed due to back injuries.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• One was paralyzed from the chest down, his mother told CNN.
  — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• After a few games, some of the players were paralyzed by fear.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The shooting left Theard paralyzed from the neck down until his death.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2023
• She is photographed in profile, to hide the side of her face that had been paralyzed by a recent stroke.
  — Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• The shooting paralyzed Ortiz, 43, from the waist down, forcing him to use a wheelchair.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
• The bullet severed her spinal chord, paralyzing her from the waist down.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The important thing is not to let that fear paralyze you or hold you back from achieving your goals.
  — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• Jenkins and Parker were staying at the home of Kristi Walley, who had been paralyzed as a teen.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• Bomb fragments severed her spinal cord and paralyzed her from the waist down, doctors said.
  — Samar Abu Elouf Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• After her cat was paralyzed, Celesia set out to find a way to heal him.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
• The family said the shooting left the teen, a cheerleader at Lincoln High School, paralyzed from the waist down.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
• The vote left the House paralyzed until a successor is chosen.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• If the virus paralyzed muscles in the chest, polio sufferers — most of whom were children — couldn’t breathe.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• The protests threaten to paralyze much of the country, with general strikes spreading to 24 cities in Western Iran this week.
  — Rhoda Kwan, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2022
• He was paralyzed within hours and dead five days later.
  — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• Pamela Pinckney hired the South Carolina lawyer after a car wreck in 2009 and again after her son, who was paralyzed in the crash, died.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• Imagine next: My grandmother, the most beloved person in the world, half paralyzed after a stroke.
  — Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Stokes was paralyzed after his head hit the hardwood during a road playoff game in 1958.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
• In November, three young Palestinian men were shot, and one was paralyzed from the chest down, in Burlington, Vt.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The House was paralyzed without a speaker and in theory can start working again.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• The toad's venom can paralyze or even kill dogs and other predators, according to the Oakland Zoo.
  — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2022
• Except for Lale, of course, who eats everything yet is paralyzed by the question of what to cook for everyone else.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2023
• The bullet went through his abdominal wall and passed into his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
  — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024