How to Use infirm in a Sentence
infirm
adjective- The clinic provides free care for elderly and infirm people who lack health insurance.
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These people aren’t just the ones that are old and infirm, but the young as well.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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The old or infirm will doubtless want to keep their cars.
—The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
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If that’s what a vaccine does to the young, imagine then the side effects for the old and infirm, who are the ones most in need of a viable drug.
—William A. Haseltine, Scientific American, 6 July 2020
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The tally paints a grim picture of the scale of the outbreak in homes tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm.
—Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2020
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But does require some courage to champion the vulnerable, and the sick and the infirm.
—Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 8 May 2017
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There are a lot of people that are traveling to the United States that are already ill and infirm.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
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Thus the skeletal rider deals untimely deaths to the rich and powerful—but why then skip over the poor and infirm?
—Lee Lawrence, WSJ, 29 June 2018
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Many people have had to take care of family members who are ill or infirm.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
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That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
—WSJ, 6 July 2018
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In the years after Franklin’s death in 1983, Lucille grew increasingly infirm and rarely left home.
—New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
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One by one, the judge read aloud the names of the victims, mostly the elderly and infirm, who had suffered horrific, preventable deaths.
—Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 17 June 2020
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They may be infirm and unable to fully care for themselves and so have to rely on someone else for their most basic needs.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
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My research suggests that the pudding spread to lots of places in Ireland—in part, perhaps, thanks to its blandness, many viewed it as suitable fare for the ill and infirm.
—Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
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At the time, Allen, 76, was the oldest and most infirm inmate prisoner to be executed in the United States.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
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At the same time, a cluster of do-gooders, mostly launching from the Puerto Rican coast, were starting to ferry the old and infirm off St. John.
—Author: Anthony Faiola, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
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And that is all before the coronavirus reared its ugly head, which, as I am given to understand, has a predilection for the aged and infirm.
—Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
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There is a sort of beautiful story of Joan in her New York apartment in the latter part of her life, and this very infirm man in a wheelchair being in her house.
—Julie Miller, VanityFair.com, 24 Apr. 2017
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His cowardly specialty was picking off the old, weak and infirm stragglers at the back of the Exodus pack.
—Lou Weiss, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
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Not just any birdhouse, a birdhouse for old, infirm birdies, with a special area for art therapy and birdie bingo.
—Joyce Wadler, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
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This includes the elderly and infirm, and people with muscle and nerve diseases.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
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While early on in the pandemic, the old and infirm were the likeliest to catch Covid-19, the average age of the person catching the virus has become younger, experts have said.
—NBC News, 10 Nov. 2020
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What if the visitor is elderly or infirm or just has bad balance?
—Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
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The rules apply equally to all, whether young or old, healthy or infirm, and regardless of race or ethnicity.
—Jim R. Benté, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
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And the workload is growing as more baby boomers become infirm, more are placed into guardianship -- and more complaints are filed.
—Jason Garcia, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
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Homeless advocates call for a shelter to serve the elderly and infirm.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
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The dogs listen attentively as children read to them, lay a head on the shoulder of the infirm and ease the tension in a room full of anxious family members.
—Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
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The infirm 66-year-old Hale died, unrepentant, in jail before serving out a 14-year sentence.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2022
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Our Lady of Sorrows, a hospice for infirm and dying nuns (conveniently built over ancient catacombs!), to take her vows.
—Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
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Truth knew former slaves had no retirement plans and that the aged and infirm were particularly vulnerable to neglect.
—Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
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