How to Use impotence in a Sentence

impotence

noun
  • The air was filled with both anger and resignation — and a sense of impotence.
    Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • But the protests also emerged from — and revealed — the impotence of the government.
    Alexey Kovalev, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
  • For a man so adept in the ways of power, LBJ experienced 1968 as a long year of impotence.
    Alan Wolfe, The New Republic, 18 May 2018
  • The blue helmets of U.N. troops had become a symbol of impotence.
    Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Viewed from ISIS’s perspective, the attacks are a sign of its impotence.
    Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Pfizer switched gears, studying the compound as a way to treat impotence.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The midfield must also shoulder their fair share of the blame for the Rossoneri's attacking impotence.
    SI.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Watson has 30 yards on 12 targets over the last two weeks, a sign of the impotence of Baltimore’s offense.
    Michael Beller, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Conversely, the film is at its most heartbreaking when the girl cries and her mother in turn shares her tears of impotence.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
  • They will be ordered to disarm and neutralise and prove their complete impotence over and over again.
    Bruno Maçães, Time, 1 Mar. 2022
  • There was a good chance the cancer would recur, and the surgery often caused permanent impotence.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Based on the Supreme court’s impotence here, that deadline is meaningless.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • Misty’s rant on the impotence of entertainment in the face of real-world events was largely met with disdain.
    Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Then, Chano gleaned over some of the pressing issues plaguing the city, mainly its impotence in the field of education.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 8 Nov. 2017
  • The loud rage sweeping over the European continent at present is born of this feeling of impotence.
    Bruno Maçães, Time, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Erbeck’s sense of impotence grew as the trial progressed.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
  • Besides the trade war, fund managers list the impotence of central banks and a bubble in bond markets as their biggest worries.
    The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Dole serves as a spokesman for men’s health issues including prostate exams and impotence.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 1 July 2021
  • In an age of heightened awareness, such impotence tends to be magnified.
    Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Russia quickly reopened the strait and eventually returned the ships, but the moves laid bare Ukraine’s naval impotence.
    Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Fighting back, even as an exercise in impotence, did a lot for McCain.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
  • The resurgence in demand for tiger bone wine in particular, which is believed to cure rheumatism and impotence, has helped drive the success of these farms.
    National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2016
  • It is said that California fails because its wealthy elites virtue-signal their caring to square the circle of their own impotence to solve the problems in their midst.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 8 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, any form of moderate exercise can help guys lower their risk of impotence.
    Amanda Hawkins, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2014
  • Another revealing sign of the electoral impotence of Ryanism is the emergence of Donald Trump.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
  • That’s because there is a lack of hard evidence behind what Minaj claimed about Covid-19 vaccines and impotence.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Prizer switched gears, studying the compound for impotence.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The vexatious or excessive carve-out would therefore have the potential to neuter the DSAR regime, eroding it to a state of almost total impotence.
    Stewart Room, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • In exchange for political impotence, they would be mostly left alone and allowed to get rich.
    Paul Mozur, New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • There’s no way a self-respecting driver would exhibit such impotence.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024

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