How to Use mental faculties in a Sentence

mental faculties

plural noun
  • Symptoms to look out for include pain and swelling in limbs, chest pain, numbness on one side of the body, and an abrupt change in mental faculties, among others.
    Serena Coady, SELF, 7 May 2022
  • Or something only someone with the mental faculties of a lump of plastic would try?
    Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Polls show voters have greater concerns about Biden’s mental faculties, but the gap may be closing.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2024
  • The obvious aim was to rattle his older rival, prodding him into a gaffe that would prove Trump’s contention that he’s lost his mental faculties.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But all of it is designed to obscure the central reality: The president of the United States is losing his mental faculties.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 15 Apr. 2024
  • So the gourds in that portrait (one an actual pumpkin, the other for holding wine) were probably alluding to his mental faculties and perhaps to the effects of wine.
    Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Biden’s allies have staunchly defended the president and criticized the description of his mental faculties in the report.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The client was afflicted with Leigh syndrome, a severe neurological disorder that did not affect her mental faculties but left her bedridden and barely able to speak more than a few words.
    John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • And matters weren’t helped by our hero’s rapidly diminishing mental faculties.
    Django Gold, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • His public persona reflected physical decline and time’s dulling of mental faculties that no poll or exercise regime can resist.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Feinstein, the oldest sitting member of Congress, has been under scrutiny for years amid reports questioning her age or mental faculties.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • There’s a poignancy, however, to this enviable slow dance: an Alzheimer’s diagnosis that is stripping away Augusto’s mental faculties, transferring the weight of their combined memory and the daily work of meaningful engagement onto Paulina.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023

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