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How to use infirm in a sentence

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Everyone understands the system will go into deficit when members of the baby-boom population bulge start retiring and becoming infirm.
Keenly sensitive to these insults, Raglan had to grapple with a French command whose sense of purpose seemed infirm.
We are sure they do not want to be seen as some infirm, incapable, old couple.
The aged, infirm, senile, and disabled are cared for, whenever possible, within extended family networks.
Are you ill enough to need nursing home care or sufficiently infirm to require residential care?
Norwegian scabies occurs predominantly in elderly, infirm, or immunosuppressed people and in those with mental illness.
The shark's job is to weed out the weaklings, the ill and the infirm and it is designed for that job.
These new laws end a nine year battle by the disabled lobby to improve bus access for wheelchair users, the blind and the infirm.
Was it Matisse or Cezanne who, aged and infirm, incapable of clutching a brush, demanded that one be tied to his hand so as to continue his work?
As it happens, I have an answerphone and Caller ID, but disproportionate numbers of elderly or infirm people don't, and harassment is harassment.
It does not help that the scholarly apparatus betrays an equally infirm commitment to rigour.
There are few offenders more despicable than criminals who prey on the elderly and infirm.
We know that in the criminal fraternity attacks on the elderly and infirm are seen as the lowest of the low.
Others were labelled infirm, defined as the deserving poor, and provided for by benevolent asylums or charities.
It isn't reasonable to expect individual small businesses to be sheltered workshops for infirm, slow, lazy or inebriated workers.
We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted.
Well the sick and infirm crawled out of their beds to play this fine course, but of course they didn't play it very well.
The development will include an elderly and mentally infirm unit, and 55 residential flats on land adjacent to the cricket ground.
They have spent much of the past 48 hours trying to get the sick, trying to get the infirm, trying to get the elderly off this island.
The Windsor unit cares for seven residents who are mentally infirm and are suffering from Alzheimer's Disease or other types of dementia.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Gilbert, now old and infirm, had resigned the see of Limerick, and with it his legatine commission.
In the meantime with shaking bodies and infirm gesture the Parcae began to intone their veridical chant.
Thus we see in the man who has been overexcited by these stimulants, a trembling hand, an infirm step, and impaired mental vigor.
The Duke of Lerma, infirm and enfeebled by years, was unable to confront his foes.
Can they give beauty to the deformed, strength to the weak, or health to the infirm?
But our fundamental goals must be to reduce dependency and upgrade the dignity of those who are infirm or disadvantaged.
He was, when you killed him, in his fifty-sixth year, and of an infirm constitution.
Her voice of call is exceedingly musical, and sounds sweetly in the ears of the infirm and bedrid.
Professor Valeyon had changed from a lusty winter into a broken, infirm, and marrowless thaw.
Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls.
The contemplation of the infirm and lonely steed overcame him.
During their slow, toilful walks she appeared to be dragging with her for a penance the burden of that infirm bulk.
Crawling behind an infirm horse, a metropolitan hackney carriage drew up on wobbly wheels and with a maimed driver on the box.
But they learnt, on enquiry, that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home.
I could think of no better expedient, and therefore went away in the night between the 23rd and 24th of April with my comrade, an old man, very infirm and very timorous.
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