How to Use infirmity in a Sentence

infirmity

noun
  • In recent years she has had to reduce her schedule because of age and infirmity.
  • And yet talking about the infirmities that come with age is largely taboo.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • His play is a symptom of the offense’s infirmity, not the cause.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • This is not subject to the infirmities that are imagined here.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 18 May 2017
  • Kureishi has been ambushed by the physical infirmities of age in a rare way.
    — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Some friends and Navy buddies, either because of age or infirmity, stayed away.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Anyone with an infirmity or a hangover registers the slope of an uphill block.
    — Curbed, 18 Aug. 2022
  • His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.
    — Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Let those who have come to grips with such perception-altering infirmities in themselves or others cast the first stone.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • The worries over Biden’s infirmity spill over into views of his vice president.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 July 2023
  • And like Hall, Allen had been on death row for decades, where many of his infirmities developed while behind bars.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • As if my sudden turn to sedentariness were the result of indolence, not infirmity.
    — Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Stalin, too, had stubbornly clung to power, even as his infirmities worsened.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Their income is limited, because of age or infirmity.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The infirmity occurred near a rib, which, according to Alderson, has slowed his return.
    — James Wagner, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • Because of his infirmities, he is housed in a medical unit of the jail, away from the general population.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.
    — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Right now, the law still restricts MAiD patients who have some sort of physical infirmity.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Lingering infirmities, and the surgeries needed to blunt them, can interrupt and end careers.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Novels force us not only to face but to experience the terror of illness, sorrow, poverty and infirmity.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Even as recognition of the infirmity of our constitutional system spreads, the people can do nothing about it.
    — chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The constitutional infirmities in the new sanctions legislation are not fatal to the bill as a whole.
    — Daniel Hemel, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • 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

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