Paralyse example sentences

I tried to bring my legs up, but they hung as dead weights, paralysed and rigid.I was paralysed under water — stiff, rigid with fear.Life in the city and its adjacent districts was paralysed as incessant overnight rain, meaning a record 180 mm, flooded vast area and disruted traffic.' And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here.