faculties

Example Sentences

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All that and a man whose cognitive faculties were far from normal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

No adult treats any other adult that way unless they’ve lost their mental faculties or never had them.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2025

Students at Sapienza University where she works are staging sit-ins at several faculties.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

She now wants to do Pilates after work, and the long hours she spends working and learning legalese have kept her mental faculties in check.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë