How to Use unimpaired in a Sentence

unimpaired

adjective
  • Marcoux was unimpaired and driving 40 mph over the speed limit at the time of the crash.
    Ryan Vlahovich, azcentral, 15 Feb. 2020
  • That means people with Alzheimer’s may live many years, possibly even until death, with their thinking unimpaired.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The roof calls for a zero-proof cocktail in one hand (for unimpaired stairs negotiation) and binoculars in the other, to scope out the view of Filucy Bay and beyond.
    Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The forecasts by the Department of Water Resources reflect unimpaired runoff, water that comes from a river basin unimpeded — the figures do not account for water management measures.
    Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The tariffs on Mexico – which start at 5% on June 10 and then escalate in increments from there – will have direct implications for the automotive industry, which has relied on the unimpaired flow of goods across the border to keep costs low.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2019
  • This discovery fits with previous work that showed people with damage to this brain region had trouble assessing their own decision-making, even though their performances on a task were unimpaired.
    Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2010
  • Financially, notwithstanding the revenue collapse last year, Heinemann claims to be in a sound position with its independence unimpaired.
    Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • All were without dementia and cognitively unimpaired during testing and had undergone one of two types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • This invited the wild idea that aducanumab might work in persons who are cognitively unimpaired but have elevated amyloid or with moderate-to-severe-stage dementia.
    Jason Karlawish, STAT, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The architecture within those cities depends heavily on symmetries and proportions derived from unimpaired human bodies and average physiology — windows as eyes, doors as mouths, cornices as hair or headgear, and so on.
    Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Property evaluations were far below replacement costs that researchers at Tulane University had recommended based on comparable homes unimpaired by toxins.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023

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