How to Use senile in a Sentence

senile

adjective

• Her mother is becoming senile.
• The senile Soviet leaders who lined up on the top of the mausoleum were the butt of jokes.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• The protein clusters outside the cells are called senile plaques.
  — Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi and David Borchelt, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
• At the end of the episode, Mrs. Walker finally tells her racist, senile father that Bryce is dead.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• The song paints the president as a senile granny trying to make it into heaven.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
• Even the most senile merchant can usually spot these shams.
  — David Wolman, WIRED, 18 May 2012
• And that claim involved an old, half-senile legislative back-bencher.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2017
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a daughter, Katherine Shorey Herold.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• In the present time, Mrs. Walker finally tells her senile father that his grandson is dead.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The cause was senile degeneration of the brain, said a son, Peter Siebentritt.
  — Benjamin Gordon, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• One day, a couple (played by Jillian Bell and Michaela Watkins) walk in with a sword that one of the women inherited from her senile grandfather.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Dotard an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 22 Sep. 2017
• Graham and Trump would prefer to use it to push a larger narrative, that the media and the Democrats conspired to contain the truth so that Joe Biden, a weak and possibly senile candidate, would win the election.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 June 2021
• The right's efforts to paint the 79-year-old as senile and unable to meet the demands of his office have been largely successful, certainly among Republicans.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 5 Aug. 2022
• The issue is about more than just the heightened risk of a sudden death tilting the balance of power, or a senile leader making important decisions.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Oct. 2021
• The old senile Brits and the uneducated young were those who voted to leave, and those who were intelligent voted to remain.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• While struggling to find the right English, Conte described the 54-year-old as 'demenza senile', which translates to senile dementia.
  — SI.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Also, our senile president should be the one suspended from twitter.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Her father, Zhang Jun, was working in a northern Chinese city hundreds of miles away at the time and stated the couple deceived Zixin’s senile farmer grandparents into letting them take her away.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2019
• North Korea responded angrily on Thursday by threatening to call Trump a senile dotard.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• The game is highly anticipated after the recent war of words between Mourinho and Antonio Conte, which saw the Blues boss label his counterpart 'senile'.
  — SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• After two hundred and forty-six years, the country shows several typical signs of old age, from creaky public transit to a downright senile forgetfulness about the status of bodily autonomy as a right.
  — River Clegg, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• As a woman struggling to communicate with her senile father, Colman wears exasperation and sorrow on her face without losing her composure.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
• Their simple, repetitive language is translated literally in the subtitles making them seem very primitive and perhaps a little senile.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2019
• Cherry angiomas are sometimes referred to as senile angiomas—that's because they are commonly associated with getting older, usually popping up after age 30, per Mount Sinai.
  — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 5 Oct. 2021
• Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017

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