Sample sentences for CATATONIC

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Definition

a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods

(may give way to short periods of extreme excitement; often associated with schizophrenia)

He is non-responsive — perhaps catatonic.

Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond?
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
For days the girl was almost catatonic.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
He sat catatonic, his eyes drifting over the lawn.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
With Rachelle and Johan in their present catatonic state, it would be impossible.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
She is four years old, catatonic, and incontinent.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
The man lay on his side, half catatonic, whispering and drooling.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
I sat, catatonic, in shock, knowing my destination but not knowing my fate.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Max turned and glared at the sleeping Agent, who appeared almost catatonic beneath a heavy wool blanket.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
When it tried to compartmentalize them it went schizoid; when it tried to integrate them it went catatonic.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
The drowning she had just witnessed had left her catatonic, virtually paralyzed with shock and despair.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Or have you gone into a catatonic state?
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
A catatonic Jew was as good as a dead one.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Now I knew a word for this condition: catatonic.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
It was a case of catatonic schizophrenia, he said.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The ants I encountered were no longer catatonic.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
She'd collapsed at her desk, was found on the floor, catatonic, and was rushed here, where the care surpassed what she could have received anywhere else.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Dr. Gerandy was throwing around words like 'catatonic,' but I didn't let him up to see her.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
It wouldn't do the kid any good to see you catatonic.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
The boy became almost catatonic.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'

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