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"Paralytic" in a Sentence (12 examples)
He's paralytic.
After doing my first workout at the gym, my body ached so much that I felt like a paralytic.
Tom got completely paralytic in the bar.
Researchers have discovered the strongest evidence yet linking the Zika virus to the paralytic illness Guillain-Barre syndrome.
After ten glasses of beer, he was paralytic.
Quoth I to myself, "Haply this Shaykh is of those who were wrecked in the ship and hath made his way to this island." So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, "O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?" He shook his head and moaned and signed to me with his hand as who should say, "Take me on thy shoulders and carry me to the other side of the well-channel." And quoth I in my mind, "I will deal kindly with him and do what he desireth; it may be I shall win me a reward in Heaven for he may be a paralytic."
For example, use of paralytics in morbidly obese patients or those with spinal instability can precipitate complete upper airway obstruction.
the cold, shaking, paralytic hand
Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again? ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics.
I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic.
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He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.
On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic. He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it."
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