Example sentences for: impotent

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

  • The fish in this river are impotent."

  • Apart from Sorvino, who gives a tremulous and surprisingly soulful performance, the characters have zero stature, and Leguizamo has been stuck with one of the most thankless roles ever written: an oversexed yet essentially impotent loser--a guilty bystander.

  • 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.

  • The impotent excuses himself from foreplay with his partner and enters the bathroom.

  • He was, the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama reported, "deeply impotent," the adverb acknowledging that normal sex was something Cornell only believed he wanted, the way he might have thought he ought to learn to draw in order to be a real artist.


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