Example sentences for: infantile

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

  • Where Adele brought the fiercest, most infantile needs to maternity, Mary is the mother as mellow flower child.

  • We conclude that SI deficiency should be added to the list of disorders that can cause infantile hypercalcemia and particularly may be considered when accompanied by FTT and watery diarrhea.

  • Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.

  • "What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times derides it as a "frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie," labels the violence "macho porn," and frets that though "sensible people know that if you hit someone with an ungloved hand hard enough, you're going to end up with broken bones, the guys in Fight Club have fists of steel, and hammer one another while the sound effects guys beat the hell out of Naugahyde sofas with Ping-Pong paddles."

  • (1) Minor means solipsistic . McEwan's plot is a contrivance of infantile simplicity worked out among four characters.


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