Sample Sentences for
infirm
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    In the way of furniture, there is a stove with a voluminous funnel; an old pine desk with a three-legged stool beside it; two or three wooden-bottom chairs, exceedingly decrepit and infirm; and—not to forget the library—on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of Congress, and a bulky Digest of the Revenue laws.  (source)
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    I thought the poor thing handled her infirmity with great courage—  (source)
    infirmity = illness
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    Queen Amberly, for example, began a program for training families to take care of their mentally and physically infirmed members.  (source)
    infirmed = ill
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    Pale and bruised, lean to the point of infirmity, he shambles toward the bed.  (source)
    infirmity = weakness
    standard suffix: When the suffix "-ity" is added to infirm, it means "the state of being infirm". This is the same pattern seen in words like equality, complexity, and possibility.
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    Then he struck a solemn pose, and intoned, Those strong in the faith know, that in the Lord's hands even the infirm vessel is put to right use.  (source)
    infirm = weak (or ill)
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    I was starting a rotation in pediatrics at the time—good luck, since children don't tend to hold the crippled responsible for their infirmities, as grown-ups do.†  (source)
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    She repeated in a quavering treble, head rocking infirmly from side to side.†  (source)
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    It was a cunning move on the part of Douglas Posey, for excepting the chambermaids who clean and service the linens, and the butlers who attend our fireplaces and chimneys, these rooms and hallways go unoccupied-except when I am infirmed, of course, more often than not these days, but as it happens, not on this day when I felt quite well.†  (source)
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    He had once been over six-three, but gravity and infirmity had sliced two inches off him.  (source)
    infirmity = old age or disease
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    A light job, that was considered, a job for the infirm, but just you try and carry out the muck without spilling any.  (source)
    infirm = people lacking physical strength or vitality
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    We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that everyday tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities.†  (source)
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    Then the muscles began to work, began to writhe under the skin, the mouth began to tremble infirmly, the Adam's apple began to rise and fall.†  (source)
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    Sir Leigh Teabing had suffered from polio as a child and now wore leg braces and walked with crutches, but Langdon had found him such a lively and colorful man on his last visit that it hardly seemed an infirmity.  (source)
    infirmity = weakness
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