IMPOTENT in a Sentence

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He was jerked out of the way, into a room with the convicted prisoners, where he sat and wept like a child in his impotent rage.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPOTENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impotent
 a.  weak; ineffective; lacking physical strength or vigor; incapable of sexual intercourse
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Melanie smiled at him through sparkling tears while Scarlett felt the fox of wrath and impotent hate gnaw at her vitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  As she passed the stove, she shoved the handkerchief into the flames and with impotent anger watched it burn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  His face was the face of a man drunk with fatigue and impotent rage and burning pity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Frank was remembering the Tara he had known before the war and on his face was a hurt look, a look of tired impotent anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Another thought that stung them to impotent wrath was the knowledge that the Yankees and Carpetbaggers would laugh.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  He was jerked out of the way, into a room with the convicted prisoners, where he sat and wept like a child in his impotent rage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
10  It had begun to seem to them that events were trying to prove that they were impotent.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  The lieutenant, who had listened with an air of impotent rage to the interview, spoke suddenly in firm and undaunted tones.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
12  It was sheer, unspeakable, impotent hate.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  What a misery to be like Don Juan, and impotent ever to fuck oneself into peace, and the little flame alight, impotent and unable to be chaste in the cool between-whiles, as by a river.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
14  This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly have had himself drawn by the lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
15  The young man fled while she was still threatening him with an impotent gesture.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
Example Sentence:
1  They were virtually impotent against the power of the large companies.
2  Without the chairman's support, the committee is impotent.
3  Although he wished to break the nicotine habit, he found himself impotent in resisting the craving for a cigarette.
4  Men sometimes suffer from impotence after a serious illness.