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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024