20 example sentences using infirmity.
Infirmity used in a sentence
Infirmity in a sentence as a noun
To her, that's a nightmare of infirmity and worry.
The aging and infirmity will come a lot quicker if you don't look out for your health.
[...] it is uncertainty, pain and infirmity I am afraid of, not death.
I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of the years of infirmity which often precedes it.
"How is it not awesome that someone can detect and prevent a major infirmity with such nonchalance and grit?
Unfortunately, some period of old age and infirmity seems to be present no matter how much lifespan extends.
You might underestimate the agitation and distress that comes with dementia and the pain of infirmity.
Everyone just assumes that he's never seen mingling with the public because he's gotten Howard Hughes eccentric in his infirmity.
There's also a deliberate program after the service to physically reach out to people that were unable to attend due to illness or infirmity.
> Days can be gloomy; there are men and women who are very much alone, and many whom age or infirmity confines to their own company with which they are only too familiar.
What it was intended to do, from the outset, is provide a minimum level of support to mitigate poverty in those who because of age or infirmity could no longer work.
You might be interested in WHO's definition of "health"[1]:"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Yup -- the first thing public health students learn is the WHO definition of health: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
If it is not complied with, the consequences are often dangerous and sometimes fatal, and such as almost always, sooner or later, bring on the peculiar infirmity of the trade.
Individually we are probably healthier, but as a population they well may be healthier since infirmity is naturally eliminated by death.
I had some university classes with a doctor few years ago; he brought up the WHO definition of health:"A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work.
The wikipedia article seems to suggest that Diplomas & Degrees fall under this as well: "The facts of this case demonstrate the inadequacy of broad and general testing devices, as well as the infirmity of using diplomas or degrees as fixed measures of capability".
" That is to say, never have anything to do with a man or place which never succeeds, because, although a man may appear to be honest and intelligent, yet if he tries this or that thing and always fails, it is on account of some fault or infirmity that you may not be able to discover but nevertheless which must exist.
I may agree in some finer details, but my ultimate pie-in-the-sky wish for America is for us to implement a mandatory system in which every man, woman, and child, regardless of age or infirmity can get covered for a nominal price, unless they are a religious or conscientious objector and chooses to opt-out, but must themselves still pay, like we do with defense.
Infirmity definitions
the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)
See also: frailty debility feebleness frailness valetudinarianism