impotent

Example Sentences

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Rendered impotent by domestication, she’ll do anything to influence human events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

A former Conservative MP has quit the party, branding it "impotent", and wants to stand in next May's Senedd election.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024

By the time the credits rolled and my friend asked me what I thought of the movie, my resentment threatened to turn into an impotent hatred for men long gone.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

I felt completely impotent, but I still felt I had to do something.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah