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  • But that person must have been immune to the cheerleaders and their cheers because he didn't end up on my list anywhere.   (source)
    immune = not susceptible (not influenced by)
  • Even Britain was not immune from this phenomenon,   (source)
    immune = unaffected
  • They were immune to its poison.   (source)
    immune = not susceptible (not in danger from)
  • It might be difficult—and it was so—to conceive how he should exist hereafter, so earthly and sensuous did he seem; but surely his existence here, admitting that it was to terminate with his last breath, had been not unkindly given; with no higher moral responsibilities than the beasts of the field, but with a larger scope of enjoyment than theirs, and with all their blessed immunity from the dreariness and duskiness of age.   (source)
    immunity = freedom (not affected by)
  • I'm immune to your charms, remember?†   (source)
  • Disinfecting and cleaning them all the time, weakening their immune systems and making them less healthy when we're trying to do the opposite—it's why kids have so many allergies.†   (source)
  • Thanks to my prior exploits, I was largely immune to bullying, and, like most kids, was usually content to avoid the bully's attention.†   (source)
  • The only problem: I was immune to drowning.†   (source)
  • You see, it perplexed me that the Divergent were immune to the serum that I developed, so I have been working to remedy that.†   (source)
  • It is an agile and keensighted creature, diurnal and social in habits, and feeding in its native range—the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa—on, among other things, scorpions, to whose venom it is completely immune.†   (source)
  • Our civil suit ran up against laws that give police, prosecutors, and judges special immunity from civil liability in criminal justice matters.†   (source)
  • And our little town, despite the beauty of the castle, our many Grade II listed buildings, our picturesque country lanes, was far from immune to it.†   (source)
  • They haven't been exposed to pesticides or pollution, so they haven't developed immunities or evolved in any way.†   (source)
  • They were reporters, professionally jaded and professionally immune, a little too well traveled in the last analysis to exert themselves toward the formalities San Piedro demanded silently of mainlanders.†   (source)
  • And I was not immune to the accruing virtue of the clean, richly colored swathes in front of the cleaning head.†   (source)
  • She'd thought, mistakenly, that hanging with the right crowd granted her immunity, but that turned out to be a joke.†   (source)
  • Ladies, did you know that: 99% of all colored diseases are carried in the urine Whites can become permanently disabled by nearly all of these diseases because we lack immunities coloreds carry in their darker pigmentation Some germs carried by whites can also be harmful to coloreds too Protect yourself.†   (source)
  • I was granted immunity by my sponsor.†   (source)
  • I'm building up an immunity to this boy.†   (source)
  • You think CERN is so critical to the earth's future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?†   (source)
  • I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.†   (source)
  • The one who caught the look was helpless, the one who bestowed it, immune.†   (source)
  • I would have figured her to be where is the crypt is it to the left immune to that kind of stuff.†   (source)
  • Even Lindsey was not immune.†   (source)
  • Once your body enters into the first stage of the disease, your immune system will kick in and try to destroy the microbes, but it will fail.†   (source)
  • And the Red Tsunami roars in fast once you're exposed, unless you have immunity.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't think Mr. Stessman would be prone to all this Husker crap, but it seemed like nobody was immune.†   (source)
  • I know how irrational that must seem, given what I saw happening around me; but until that evening I had thought I had a special immunity, that somehow the violence wouldn't touch me.†   (source)
  • I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.†   (source)
  • You're not immune to the smoke or fumes and your internal organs will burn.†   (source)
  • I don't claim I've been immune to all of this, but I've learnt to live with it.†   (source)
  • Only one member of his audience seemed immune to the magic of it.†   (source)
  • What happened to Missy was the work of evil and no one in your world is immune from it.†   (source)
  • These were just things that made me feel I was immune from death.†   (source)
  • It disabled the immune system.†   (source)
  • As was a hallmark of his breed, he was immune to pain, an unstoppable machine of muscle and sinew.†   (source)
  • Now he is all but immune to the scent of human blood, and he is able to do the work he loves without agony.†   (source)
  • But Maxine is immune to their awkwardness, drawing them out, devoting her attention to them fully, and Gogol is reminded of the first time he'd met her, when she'd seduced him in the same way.†   (source)
  • The Rrrrrr handed over the unit leader, the one who'd started the mutiny, in exchange for immunity for the others.†   (source)
  • Hekate is immensely powerful and is more or less immune to the effects of the magic she generates.†   (source)
  • THROUGHOUT THE SPRING OF 1893 the streets of Chicago filled with unemployed men from elsewhere, but otherwise the city seemed immune to the nation's financial troubles.†   (source)
  • We could see early on that all grown-ups aren't equally immune to damage.†   (source)
  • They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta's.†   (source)
  • She seemed immune to his irritation.†   (source)
  • You assume that the sort of people who make it to the NFL are immune to the emotion.†   (source)
  • And then as soon as Sennacherib's soldiers came on the scene, they all dropped dead of what can only be understood as an extremely virulent disease, to which the people of Jerusalem were apparently immune.†   (source)
  • She was immune to vanity and that day she was more absent than usual, dreaming of new beasts to embroider on her tablecloth, creatures that were half bird and half mammal, covered with iridescent feathers and endowed with horns and hooves, and so fat and with such stubby wings that they defied the laws of biology and aerodynamics.†   (source)
  • Get Lost The Fugees themselves were not immune to the continued tensions between refugees and some locals.†   (source)
  • Shaken by the conviction that God was present, Dr. Juvenal Urbino thought that such a house was immune to the plague.†   (source)
  • The immune system is half-asleep.†   (source)
  • Because of the circumstance of your upbringing, we're not sure about the state of your immune system.†   (source)
  • Their greatest weapon is their evil breath, which fogs the minds of humans-incapacitating many-though it is less potent on dwarves, and elves are immune altogether.†   (source)
  • And I find that this imparts a certain natural immunity to some of the most common poisons of the Assassins' Handbook.†   (source)
  • I'm immune, I tell him.†   (source)
  • Apparently immune to it, Coach brought his whistle to his lips, and we got the idea.†   (source)
  • Interestingly, the town proper seemed to be immune to the fog that plagued the campus.†   (source)
  • Among those attracted to him were not a few members of the opposite sex, and he wasn't immune to the attention.†   (source)
  • June's death had broken their mother's spirit, and David could no longer believe himself immune from misfortune.†   (source)
  • There really wasn't a single person in the world that was immune to his abilities, not even President Gray.†   (source)
  • You need to have your emotional immune system checked out.†   (source)
  • Random Access Memory, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Mutual Assured Destruction.†   (source)
  • Men seemed immune to these sorts of insecurities.†   (source)
  • His immune system seems shot.†   (source)
  • She will build immunity to the offending words.†   (source)
  • Her immune system reacted badly to all the shots: they made her sick.†   (source)
  • Coming from the village, he had no immunity to this urban disease.†   (source)
  • There's been no testimony about immunity to anybody.†   (source)
  • My mother said this was because she worried too much, that anxiety affected the immune system.†   (source)
  • He was immune to the nice-young-man defense.†   (source)
  • "They were both poisoned," said the man in black "I've spent the past two years building up immunity to iocane powder."†   (source)
  • In any event, after so much exhausting worry about whether he'd ever make it to this esteemed place, he suddenly feels immune from doubt.†   (source)
  • He became immune to the pain.†   (source)
  • She darted the eyes out with every word, stabbing at the men's faces, but the men were immune to her poison.†   (source)
  • It was early afternoon when the first troops from Roxbury—500 men who had already had smallpox and were thus immune—crossed the Neck and marched into Boston, drums beating, flags flying, and led by Artemus Ward on horseback.†   (source)
  • I'm not immune to that.†   (source)
  • It's good that she's gone and that I'll never see her again, though it's not Tereza I need to be free ofit's that sickness, compassion, which I thought I was immune to until she infected me with it.†   (source)
  • But in spite of his HIV infection, Joe's immune system was still mostly intact.†   (source)
  • Derek took me home, and as we kissed a very long good-bye, I hoped everyone was asleep so I'd be immune to questions.†   (source)
  • I have known a lot of tough men, men who seemed immune to the elements, even to bullets, but no one ignored the pain like Ed Fair.†   (source)
  • It works like this: When the HIV virus enters your body, it invades a cell that is part of your immune system.†   (source)
  • By daybreak, when my grandmother and mother made their way home, the entire family was home safe, proof to my grandmother that our family was immune to harm as long as they went to plays.†   (source)
  • You were given some sort of immunity.†   (source)
  • I am immune.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy charges are often brought against a person just on the strength of testimony from a "coconspirator" or, even worse, a "confidential informant," someone who has agreed to rat out others in exchange for immunity.†   (source)
  • In the beginning, the symptoms are listlessness, a weakening of the immune system, and some light-headedness.†   (source)
  • But the memory of this magical evening will linger, and even someone as famous as Greta Garbo is not immune to Camelot's allure: "It was a most unusual evening that I spent with you in the White House," she writes in her thank-you note to Jackie Kennedy.†   (source)
  • Watch it—your immunity is showing.†   (source)
  • She was almost immune to the nastiness of it now.†   (source)
  • And then, once I have drunk enough of your blood to render me immune to the horrors of sunlight, I will give you to Ignatius.†   (source)
  • He'd never grown immune to the comet tail of double takes and curious glances he dragged behind him, but tonight it felt unbearable.†   (source)
  • I m immune, he said absently.†   (source)
  • I had grown fully immune to both by the time I was eight.†   (source)
  • Even her own body was not immune to the magic.†   (source)
  • Later, when I developed more confidence in my immunity to his affliction, I became interested in this debris in a more positive way and began to jot down the fragments amorphically, that is, without regard to form, in the order in which they occurred to me.†   (source)
  • If other groups were interested in becoming wealthy, I was to assure the Brothers and the doubting members of other districts, that we rejected wealth as corrupt and intrinsically degrading; if other minorities loved the country despite their grievances, I would assure the committee that we, immune to such absurdly human and mixed reactions, hated it absolutely; and, greatest contradiction of all, when they denounced the American scene as corrupt and degenerate, I was to say that we, though snarled inextricably within its veins and sinews, were miraculously healthy.†   (source)
  • Carlos give you immunity from his own particular brand of persecution?†   (source)
  • The hair was completely immune to combs and brushes, and Tappan kept it free of oils or balms.†   (source)
  • No immunity, no adaptation, no antibodies would have been developed.†   (source)
  • I am by no means immune to flattery in normal circumstances, but there I was a fugitive, number one on the state's Most Wanted list, a handcuffed outlaw who had been underground for more than a year, and yetthe judge, the other attorneys, and the spectators all greeted me with deference and professional courtesy.†   (source)
  • The boys seemed immune to the heat, perhaps lifted by the feeling of freedom that only moving through the world can provide.†   (source)
  • In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease's ravaging effect on circulation and immunity.†   (source)
  • I haven't been able to get you diplomatic immunity but I hope to, before you leave hospital.†   (source)
  • Pilar was immune to threats.†   (source)
  • Had they been as big as mountains they might have felt pain, but they were immune.†   (source)
  • Dagny-he thought-and the depth of their feeling for each other ....the blackmail from which the depraved would be immune ....hadn't he, too, once called it depravity?†   (source)
  • Only the drow from his distant vantage point and the demon who was immune to such sights witnessed another image of Crenshinibon being raised.†   (source)
  • I want immunity.†   (source)
  • Immune to your charms, Mr. Leighton.†   (source)
  • I'm immune.'†   (source)
  • I was immune.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if Jase actually liked Raisin Bran or if seeing me locked in a closet was enough of a deterrent to make him eat it, but he seemed to be her favorite and immune to the closet torture.†   (source)
  • City boys get immune as they grow up.†   (source)
  • While the dread of punishment discourages sedition, the hope of immunity encourages it.†   (source)
  • According to my research, I should he immune to practically anything.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was his immunity to insult, or his lack of resentment.†   (source)
  • For a few minutes I forgot I was living in the future, like Glen and Janice had been preserved perfectly in a time-immune bubble just waiting for me to come back.†   (source)
  • If I am to function here without cover, I require a document giving me blanket immunity, now and forever, amen.†   (source)
  • Even to-day, three thousand years later, as we channel-surf over so much live coverage of contemporary savagery, highly informed but nevertheless in danger of growing immune, familiar to the point of overfamiliarity with old newsreels of the concentration camp and the gulag, Homer's image can still bring us to our senses.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had come to realize that while Gilbert de La Fayette was immune to his intoxicating charm, he was a sincere admirer and, indeed, a friend.†   (source)
  • Only that I'm not immune to gossip.†   (source)
  • I was not immune to the pleasures and enchantments of Broad Street, I was not immune to pleasures and enchantments of any kind.†   (source)
  • We wouldn't be immune.†   (source)
  • Parking difficulties in the towns have caused these markets to move to the open country where they are immune from town taxes.†   (source)
  • Mundt, who had no diplomatic immunity (NATO Britain does not recognize our sovereignty), went into hiding.†   (source)
  • It is possible that the usefulness of the foxes as preliminary excavators may have guaranteed them immunity; but it seems more likely that the wolves' tolerance simply reflected their general amiability.†   (source)
  • I thought you were the one man immune to demonic possession.†   (source)
  • They, too, would have laid covetous eyes on Emmi's little radio; there were a few at least who were not beyond larceny and they, too, would scarcely be immune to suspicion.†   (source)
  • She is immune to KATE'S compassion.†   (source)
  • That was his immunity to the Old Man's power, and also it was his weakness.†   (source)
  • A blazing sun hung half-way down the sky, but Jeff's mahogany-brown body was now quite immune to its onslaughts.†   (source)
  • And more to this the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and the King's own Coronation Oath!†   (source)
  • BERENGER: I wonder if I really am immune?†   (source)
  • He was dead to the world; as immune as if asleep in his pew, but bent the opposite way.†   (source)
  • He himself was immune to the wounds of those76 political clashes from which his adversaries retired bleeding and broken.†   (source)
  • The cop, immune to the star's appeal, was gloomily inspecting the house, face by face.†   (source)
  • She seemed immune.†   (source)
  • In Kino's ears the Song of the Family was as fierce as a cry. He was immune and terrible, and his song had become a battle cry.   (source)
    immune = not in danger of suffering from something
  • They're hated for their immunity to the terrible virus, are mockingly called Munies.†   (source)
  • Limousines in this city enjoyed a kind of unspoken immunity.†   (source)
  • Our immune systems keep it in check easily.†   (source)
  • Even he was not immune to it He retreated, wincing and growling in frustration.†   (source)
  • Remedios the Beauty was the only one who was immune to the banana plague.†   (source)
  • Do you really believe the Vatican is immune?†   (source)
  • That didn't make me immune from the guilt that I felt for what I had done.†   (source)
  • Having grown up around the hands of Reverend Price, I am fairly immune to such fright.†   (source)
  • Fernanda, was immune to the uncertainty of those days.†   (source)
  • There are over two hundred of us and we're all immune.†   (source)
  • Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms.†   (source)
  • Tell yourself that you're immune because of where you live or who you are.†   (source)
  • Did I mention I'm immune to his panty-dropping grin?†   (source)
  • It was like air blowing harmlessly through a shadow; the shadow was immune.†   (source)
  • But I made her promise to give the other tributes immunity if the rebels won," I tell him.†   (source)
  • They also used them to study the role of immunity in organ transplantation.†   (source)
  • It may mean that you'll get sick more often than people with healthy immune systems.†   (source)
  • Her skeletal horses seemed immune to the distraction.†   (source)
  • Therefore, it was necessary that I develop a new form of simulation to which they are not immune.†   (source)
  • The forces of nature were immune to intimidation.†   (source)
  • Don't you want him to know that you've found someone who's immune?†   (source)
  • The more you use it-the more viruses you get exposed to-the better your immune system becomes.†   (source)
  • It was soon obvious, however, that Fermina Daza was not immune to the hazards of her class.†   (source)
  • If they built them before the internet, shouldn't they be immune from it?†   (source)
  • Cecilia was saying to him, "He's immune.†   (source)
  • Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune.†   (source)
  • Your brain has an immune system, just like your body.†   (source)
  • Lunars are immune to the disease, of course.†   (source)
  • It made matters worse when you forced her to give the other victors immunity.†   (source)
  • Her immune system can't be in peak form right now.†   (source)
  • All they'll really care about in the end is that we're immune—they'll love putting us on record.†   (source)
  • She's immune to magic until that cursed vitamin wears off.†   (source)
  • She begins worrying that something's wrong, that my immune system is compromised somehow.†   (source)
  • Your immune system hasn't been exposed to a lifetime of common viruses and bacterial infections.†   (source)
  • Especially being immune—we could probably find jobs pretty easily.†   (source)
  • Yes, you're surely immune to his power, but you are still a newborn, Bella.†   (source)
  • She was a cyborg, she was immune to the plague, she was his new favorite guinea pig.†   (source)
  • "I need you to add Annie Cresta to the immunity list," I tell her.†   (source)
  • Or did he think Garrett had learned his own form of immunity?†   (source)
  • The Immune are the only resource left to this world.†   (source)
  • Wherein Katniss Everdeen agreed to support the rebels in exchange for captured victors' immunity.†   (source)
  • Something in your DNA that predisposed your immune system to fight off this particular disease.†   (source)
  • You mean...I could demand that they give Peeta immunity?†   (source)
  • Glad to see the guy not immune to the Flare isn't the only one with a brain that still works.†   (source)
  • You pretend to be immune to his charms, but I could see the way you looked at him at the market.†   (source)
  • I know a guy named Hans who moved to Denver—he's immune like us.†   (source)
  • She had not been entirely immune to the glamour, the way shells were supposed to be.†   (source)
  • He, and probably the other Gladers and everyone in Group B, was immune to the Flare.†   (source)
  • She was just a mechanic, and he was the prince with all the charms she pretended to be immune to.†   (source)
  • Essentially, it makes it so that they are immune to Lunar control.†   (source)
  • They make me nervous, like I'm suddenly not gonna be immune anymore.†   (source)
  • We just want to know what you're planning, why you're kidnapping immune people and locking them up.†   (source)
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