SENILE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SENILE, such as:

1. This old lady tried to hide her senile weakness.
2. She was showing an inquisitiveness that really made it seem like she was going senile.
3. It would have been more suitable as a way of passing the long days after he had retired and become senile.
4. She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.

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 Meanings and Examples of SENILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
senile
 a.  of or pertaining to old age
Classic Sentence:
1  She cried again that their youth was senile and cruel on the day when she overheard Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  She was showing an inquisitiveness that really made it seem like she was going senile.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
4  It would have been more suitable as a way of passing the long days after he had retired and become senile.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
5  His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
6  He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence:
1  This old lady tried to hide her senile weakness.