How to Use mental faculties in a Sentence

mental faculties

plural noun
  • Or something only someone with the mental faculties of a lump of plastic would try?
    — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • King had diminished use of his mental faculties.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Polls show voters have greater concerns about Biden’s mental faculties, but the gap may be closing.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2024
  • Symptoms to look out for include pain and swelling in limbs, chest pain, numbness on one side of the body, and an abrupt change in mental faculties, among others.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 7 May 2022
  • And matters weren’t helped by our hero’s rapidly diminishing mental faculties.
    — Django Gold, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Some Republicans are brushing off any long-term effects of the news of Kay Granger’s mental faculties.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024
  • His public persona reflected physical decline and time’s dulling of mental faculties that no poll or exercise regime can resist.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Aristotle argued that some people, such as those with mental impairments, were inferior to those with greater mental faculties.
    — Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
  • So the gourds in that portrait (one an actual pumpkin, the other for holding wine) were probably alluding to his mental faculties and perhaps to the effects of wine.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Those youths who are said to be digital natives are possibly undercutting their own mental faculties due to a reliance on the Internet.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Biden’s allies have staunchly defended the president and criticized the description of his mental faculties in the report.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • With his mental faculties set to plummet in the coming months, he’s advised to settle any unfinished business or looming presidential campaigns and find a way to make peace with the life that he’s lived.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
  • The spirit of celebration is present as a backdrop for you in the midst of all the other commotion, so don’t forget to stop and smell the roses, even if the messy stuff is demanding a lot of your mental faculties.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Feinstein, the oldest sitting member of Congress, has been under scrutiny for years amid reports questioning her age or mental faculties.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • The client was afflicted with Leigh syndrome, a severe neurological disorder that did not affect her mental faculties but left her bedridden and barely able to speak more than a few words.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • According to media theorist Marshall McLuhan, every medium is an extension of our physical or mental faculties.
    — Big Think, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps Robert Hur wanted to appear evenhanded and nonpartisan by absolving Biden but criticizing his mental faculties.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The former Democratic nominee for president stepped into the race after Joe Biden dropped out, after facing pressure and scrutiny regarding his age and mental faculties.
    — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps there’s something appealing, after Biden mumbled and stumbled through last week’s debate, about a Democratic candidate who can say something kinda loopy-sounding without everyone worrying that her mental faculties are expiring in real time.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026

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