IMBECILE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for IMBECILE, such as:

1. He was silent, in the silence of imbecile obstinacy.
2. He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
3. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
4. That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic.
5. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMBECILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imbecile
 a.  without physical strength; feeble; impotent; helpless
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  He was silent, in the silence of imbecile obstinacy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
3  However innocent he might be, he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the circumstances were very black against him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
4  By an examination of the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  Oh, you know, deuce take it,' said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile, 'we can't forego Blood, you know.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
6  That I caught a view of myself in a mirror, looking perfectly imbecile and idiotic.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
7  A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  And then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and I could see nothing more for smoke.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
9  The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious fellow.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
10  Bonacieux, when her husband had shut the street door and she found herself alone; "that imbecile lacked but one thing: to become a cardinalist."
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
11  There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
12  Pierre continued, in French, to persuade the officer not to hold that drunken imbecile to account.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
14  In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  Mrs. Gradgrind faintly looked at the tongs, as the most appropriate thing her imbecility could think of doing.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  That is why I say that for anyone to expect they can dictate these things is an imbecile, and that is why I believe the judge should dismiss such cases.