Sentences with 'paralysed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word paralysed and other words derived from it.
• « It was in this context of quasi-civil war, with the government of the French Fourth Republic paralysed and the prospect of a new right-wing military dictatorship all too real, that the leader of the Free French forces in World War II, Charles de Gaulle, offered to "rescue" France from its predicament, with the support of the army. »
• « The youth movement reached its zenith in May 1968. From Europe to Mexico, huge uprisings led mostly by university students temporarily paralysed universities, infrastructure and even entire countries. »
• « In rural villages in Africa he was often taken for a doctor. Villagers would show him their wounds or bring the blind to him, and children who had been paralysed by polio would crawl to him. »
• « A mouse passing near a spider is paralysed with a cloud of stinging hairs that the spider tears off its abdomen with a quick movement of its hind legs. »