Example sentences for: impotent

How can you use “impotent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The pill is designed to correct impotence, but there are already indications that huge numbers of men who are not impotent, but who simply want the sex drive of a 19-year-old, are eager to take it.

  • This reticence had rendered the government impotent since its initial meeting last July.

  • For example, the Shiv Sena party leader, Bal Thackeray, told an opponent to "get circumcised" if he had so much empathy with Muslims, and informed Congress Party leaders that their dependence on Sonia Gandhi (widow of onetime Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) showed they were "impotent."

  • She seems to be withdrawing from him, an abandonment that is leaving him passive and impotent.

  • Lenny Bruce built a routine around the idea that repeating the word "nigger" over and over and over very, very fast could strip it of its cruel power, reducing it to an impotent sound.


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