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
• The crisis laid bare the stunning impotence of the ostensibly mighty Russian state in the absence of the leader’s instructions.
  — Maksim Samorukov, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2024
• 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
• There’s no way a self-respecting driver would exhibit such impotence.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024