How to Use infirm in a Sentence

infirm

adjective

• The clinic provides free care for elderly and infirm people who lack health insurance.
• These people aren’t just the ones that are old and infirm, but the young as well.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• The old or infirm will doubtless want to keep their cars.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• But does require some courage to champion the vulnerable, and the sick and the infirm.
  — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 8 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• Many people have had to take care of family members who are ill or infirm.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
• That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
  — WSJ, 6 July 2018
• In the years after Franklin’s death in 1983, Lucille grew increasingly infirm and rarely left home.
  — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This includes the elderly and infirm, and people with muscle and nerve diseases.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• 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
• What if the visitor is elderly or infirm or just has bad balance?
  — Kris Frieswick, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Homeless advocates call for a shelter to serve the elderly and infirm.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024