How to Use infirmity in a Sentence

infirmity

noun
  • In recent years she has had to reduce her schedule because of age and infirmity.
  • His play is a symptom of the offense’s infirmity, not the cause.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • And yet talking about the infirmities that come with age is largely taboo.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • This is not subject to the infirmities that are imagined here.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 May 2017
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Groups of ten and then 20 determine the scope of the problem and then start figuring out a way to pilot the craft despite its infirmity.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Both sides say the other’s plan is riddled with legal infirmities and must be rejected by the court.
    — Tom Corrigan, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2017
  • But throughout 2020, there was some good news buried in the bad concerning that other great infirmity: the sickly state of the earthly climate.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Some friends and Navy buddies, either because of age or infirmity, stayed away.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Right now, the law still restricts MAiD patients who have some sort of physical infirmity.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Such resignation in the face of mental infirmity makes little sense to Hiram Carver, the physician at the heart of this book.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Sometimes there’s a slur to her speech and a droop to her lip that suggest infirmity and instability.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
  • For some the pull is to reach loved ones, often vulnerable due to illness or infirmity, who were left behind.
    — Cara Anna, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • In rural India, glasses are seen as a sign of infirmity, and in many places, a hindrance for young women seeking to get married.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • The worries over Biden’s infirmity spill over into views of his vice president.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 July 2023
  • Since 2012, the governor had two back surgeries, a hip injury and has had follow-up treatment for those infirmities.
    — Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2017
  • Let those who have come to grips with such perception-altering infirmities in themselves or others cast the first stone.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • Anyone with an infirmity or a hangover registers the slope of an uphill block.
    — Curbed, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The infirmity occurred near a rib, which, according to Alderson, has slowed his return.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Despite his infirmities and his lesser role in the crime, prosecutors argued that Bryant should spend time in prison and urged the judge to sentence him to a year and a day to provide deterrence for tax fraud schemes.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But anyone who wasn’t scanning for some indication of the infirmity that forced the postponement very likely wouldn’t have found it, as the singer was slinky, wiry, and fully engaged.
    — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
  • His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.
    — Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
  • A few Rydal Park residents who gathered to talk about ageism wouldn’t admit to avoiding anyone based on their age or infirmity.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The constitutional infirmities in the new sanctions legislation are not fatal to the bill as a whole.
    — Daniel Hemel, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • But that does not entail that illness and infirmity are not things to be avoided if that possibility was available!
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
  • The scenario that would entail the greatest likelihood of radical change is a succession struggle that would occur if Xi were to pass away or resign owing to infirmity.
    — Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2020

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