How to Use infirm in a Sentence

infirm

adjective
  • The clinic provides free care for elderly and infirm people who lack health insurance.
  • These people aren’t just the ones that are old and infirm, but the young as well.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Only Holt’s third servant, an old and infirm man, lent a hand.
    — Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Many people have had to take care of family members who are ill or infirm.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
  • That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
    — WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • What if the visitor is elderly or infirm or just has bad balance?
    — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Smart robots will tend to the old and infirm when there are not enough youngsters around to do the job, and the rest of us can lead lives of leisure.
    — New Atlas, 23 July 2024
  • The tally paints a grim picture of the scale of the outbreak in homes tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Thus the skeletal rider deals untimely deaths to the rich and powerful—but why then skip over the poor and infirm?
    — Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 29 June 2018
  • But does require some courage to champion the vulnerable, and the sick and the infirm.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 8 May 2017
  • With their branches weighted down by snow, his evergreens are infirm but not yet fallen—still here after the storm.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • If that’s what a vaccine does to the young, imagine then the side effects for the old and infirm, who are the ones most in need of a viable drug.
    — William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 6 July 2020
  • Not just any birdhouse, a birdhouse for old, infirm birdies, with a special area for art therapy and birdie bingo.
    — Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • This includes the elderly and infirm, and people with muscle and nerve diseases.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Homeless advocates call for a shelter to serve the elderly and infirm.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The rules apply equally to all, whether young or old, healthy or infirm, and regardless of race or ethnicity.
    — Jim R. Benté, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Like other effects of climate change, its harms fall most heavily on those who are poor, infirm, very young or elderly.
    — Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There are a lot of people that are traveling to the United States that are already ill and infirm.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
  • And the workload is growing as more baby boomers become infirm, more are placed into guardianship -- and more complaints are filed.
    — Jason Garcia, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The bricks-and-mortar surgeries left to deal with the elderly and infirm may struggle financially.
    — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • One by one, the judge read aloud the names of the victims, mostly the elderly and infirm, who had suffered horrific, preventable deaths.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2020
  • No one noticed — even though he was housed on a unit for mentally ill and infirm prisoners and was supposed to be closely monitored.
    — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • His cowardly specialty was picking off the old, weak and infirm stragglers at the back of the Exodus pack.
    — Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • At the same time, caring for the growing numbers of elderly and infirm is demanding ever-greater resources.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Critics feared it could be used to hasten the departures of the elderly, infirm and inconvenient.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • And that is all before the coronavirus reared its ugly head, which, as I am given to understand, has a predilection for the aged and infirm.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
  • Some were waving white flags; a few of the most elderly and infirm were pushed on rudimentary carts as Israeli troops positioned on tanks watched on.
    — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The dogs listen attentively as children read to them, lay a head on the shoulder of the infirm and ease the tension in a room full of anxious family members.
    — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • My research suggests that the pudding spread to lots of places in Ireland—in part, perhaps, thanks to its blandness, many viewed it as suitable fare for the ill and infirm.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The infirm 66-year-old Hale died, unrepentant, in jail before serving out a 14-year sentence.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022

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