Example sentences for: impotent

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

  • Helena Bonham Carter plays a feisty young woman with Lou Gehrig's disease who is determined to lose her virginity, and Kenneth Branagh is the slightly loony, impotent artist who is her caretaker.

  • 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.

  • Next, clasping the head of his penis with one hand, the impotent inserts the needle about two centimeters into the shaft.

  • Parliament, which was denied knowledge of the secret war treaty until the Peace Conference of 1919, was exposed as impotent.

  • 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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