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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 arrival comes two years after the zoo had to euthanize two of its older female elephants, Ambika, 72, and Shanthi, 45, due to old age and infirmity.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
• The end of a lengthy political career is almost invariably sad whether the final act is defeat, infirmity, or death.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
• Even as recognition of the infirmity of our constitutional system spreads, the people can do nothing about it.
  — chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• Legal experts who have studied the new travel ban concur that many of the constitutional infirmities of the original have been cured.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• Lingering infirmities, and the surgeries needed to blunt them, can interrupt and end careers.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• They were convicted of plotting against the state and undermining the army in the early weeks of the protests against Bouteflika, who was seeking a fifth mandate despite infirmities following a stroke.
  — Aomar Ouali, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• Novels force us not only to face but to experience the terror of illness, sorrow, poverty and infirmity.
  — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• An alternative disposition does not mean that there were any problems or infirmities with the case or the evidence.
  — Katie Kilkenny, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024