Example sentences for: infirm

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

  • A NYT front-pager reports that because so many members of the House and Senate now have personal experience with the difficulties posed by aging, infirm parents and other relatives, the issue of how to help alleviate the cost of long-term care for the elderly and disabled is at last becoming part of Congress' agenda.

  • "Meals on Wheels now delivering not just to the elderly and infirm but also to the merely indolent."

  • The WSJ reports that concerns about Indonesia's President Suharto's ability to turn things around--because he's infirm and because he has too many family members with fortunes to protect--have gotten so bad that on Thursday, supermarkets were jammed by those trying to stock up on essential goods.

  • The hillside gardens and lake at Narmada, 10 km (6 miles) east of Cakranegara, were laid out for a 19th-century raja to remind him of Gunung Rinjani and its crater lake when he became too infirm to make the journey to the real mountain.

  • Yates refused to step aside when he became obviously physically infirm.


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