How to Use senility in a Sentence

senility

noun

• I was inclined to dismiss his fractious behavior as the first sign of senility.
  — Jeffrey Frank, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2016
• It was widely believed that its most common cause was senility, an extreme stage of aging.
  — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• Few ideas in biology have been more fixed than the doctrine that people are born with a finite number of brain cells and go downhill from there, neuronwise, all the way to senility.
  — Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• Heart failure, cardiac arrest and senility are all garbage codes.
  — USA Today, 22 Dec. 2021
• Trump and his allies are correct that Reagan’s critics accused him of senility in office.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• André’s ego is too large and impregnable to be deflated by senility.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
• Your 18-year-old cat could have health problems resulting in pain or could have a cognitive dysfunction, like senility or dementia.
  — chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Capone is set in this latter period of his life and makes the senility real by blending scenes from Capone's rise into his everyday life to simulate jumbled memories.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Colin, an unemployed man in his 50s, and his mother, Barbara, teetering on the edge of senility, have lived in Room 4 for nearly a year, trying to fend off impending indignity.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• This has nothing to do with conservative scare tactics about senility or a decades-long penchant for exaggeration and verbal gaffes.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• Former President Donald Trump, only three years younger than Biden and also subject to similar claims of senility by opponents, used his challenger’s health as an attack line on the campaign trail.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2021
• The age question isn’t just an issue of senility, but also representation.
  — Max Ufberg, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2021
• Most strikingly, Biden, like Reagan, needs to dispel the notion — propounded relentlessly by Trump and his supporters — that at 77, the former vice president has descended into senility.
  — Doyle McManus Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
• Trump has repeatedly flipped the conversation about mental deterioration onto his opponent, who many have claimed also shows signs of senility.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• Defenders said her critics were confusing her patrician gentility for senility.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• That excludes people with certain conditions, like intellectual disabilities or senility.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024