How to Use impaired in a Sentence

impaired

adjective

• The impaired woman’s 11-year-old daughter was with her in the car when the crash occurred.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 14 May 2022
• Coote noted that the driver of the car was screened at the scene and determined not to be impaired.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
• At all times make sure there’s a non-impaired driver behind the wheel.
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2022
• At least, not as impaired as his lawyers would have the jury believe.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• At its worst, MS can lead to impaired speech and paralysis.
  — Liz Szabo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
• And there have been those who have suffered massive strokes that have left them impaired.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Add to that impaired vision, hearing loss, and the worst threat of all—confusion.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• Injury to that area leads to an impaired sense of identity.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
• Delta 8 can cause impaired motor skills, just like delta-9 THC.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• Viruses can get sick in the sense that their normal function is impaired.
  — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• Romero said that after the crash, the driver got out of his vehicle and appeared to be impaired.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 9 May 2023
• Adults can be at risk in lakes or open water when impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
• Owen pleaded guilty to impaired driving but was allowed to fight the case in higher courts.
  — Ed White, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2020
• During the delta wave, the odds people would experience an impaired sense of smell fell to 44%.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 July 2022
• Swift compared the work of his former unit to stopping impaired drivers.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2022
• For those that are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing or speech-impaired can call the Michigan Relay Center at 711.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2022
• The man seemed impaired, failed all field sobriety tests and registered .17 on a breath test.
  — Star Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
• Check the trust and the clauses that describe what is required when an elder becomes impaired.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• And then there’s Fox’s speech, which has also become more impaired in recent years.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
• People around us who are the same age as we are become impaired one way or another.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Then a string of arrests for impaired driving landed him in legal trouble, and his fourth DUI, a felony, sent him to prison for six months.
  — Sara Jean Green, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Officers responding to a crash into a tree and found Spracklen to be impaired.
  — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• In other parts of the state, dead or impaired bats should be reported to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife or the local health department in the area.
  — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2021
• The man, who was injured but survived, now faces charges of manslaughter and driving while impaired.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
• About 70 percent of the buildings tagged by the city as severely impaired or outright destroyed were on or very near the coastline.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• Trump had harsh things to say about Biden, at one point calling him cognitively impaired.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
• Anyone can be at risk in lakes or open water when either impaired, swimming alone or unaware of how to swim.
  — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
• Anyone can be at risk in lakes or open water when either impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
  — The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• There were 26 people killed in wrecks during Memorial Day weekend last year, with 19 of those deaths linked to impaired drivers, the patrol’s release states.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 25 May 2024
• Maybe some Democrats actually think Biden is not mentally impaired.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024