infirm

How To Use infirm In A Sentence

• I sat there in the infirmary watching the nurses run about, taking blood and putting in tube after tube trying to save him.
• In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries.
• Pay a visit to the camp infirmary, get your clothes deloused, or just park yourself in the latrine and fight that nasty case of amoebic dysentery you picked up along the way - it's up to you.
• The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
• In places where there is no water for farming, men migrate to urban areas in search of work leaving women behind to fend for the old, and the infirm and the children.
• Soon the hotel began to resemble an infirmary, with dozens of guests in various stages of illness strewn around the lobby every night.
• By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Too early death, or severe infirmity, or excessive distance could eliminate any possibility of a significant relationship.
• We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted.
• A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist