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I want to say "The building was very high, so I froze with fear". Would I be
right to say:

> 「建物がとても高くて僕は足がすくんだ」
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How to use「足がすくんだ」
> 「建物{たてもの}がとても高{たか}くて僕{ぼく}は **足{あし}がすくんだ** 。」

is a perfectly natural-sounding sentence (with excellent particle choices).
Your use of 「足がすくむ」 is just very appropriate here.

Colloquially, young people might go with 「ビビりまくる」 or 「ビビる」 instead of 「足がすくむ」
in that situation.

I myself would try to sound funny (and probably fail) by saying 「足が **む**
くんだ。」 or 「足が **む** くんじゃった」 by using 「 **む** くむ」 instead of the correct verb 「
**す** くむ」. That means "My feet are swollen."
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