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Example sentences for "inability"

Lexicographically close words:
imputes; imputeth; imputing; imself; inacceptable; inaccessibility; inaccessible; inaccuracies; inaccuracy
  1. He awaited the prince's departure for a week or two in his friend's abode, paying no visits, probably from inability to endure so much novelty.

  2. It was on this occasion that Ariosto, probably from inability to choose his times or anodes of returning home, contracted a cough, which is understood to have shortened his existence; so that Julius may have killed him after all.

  3. Such accidents, however, occurred too often, and I was forced to take advantage of my lost lawsuit and plead inability of purse to remain longer in London or its vicinage.

  4. Can you forbear to see the folly of a fellow who has in his care the lives of thousands, when he begs his papa permission to be married, and confesses his inability to decide in a matter which concerns no man's happiness but his own?

  5. It was almost impossible to realize that only a few hours before she had been alone with him, telling that dazzling story of her inability to love another man.

  6. Cavanaugh had called one evening, and as the three friends sat on the porch, the weather being warm, he had explained that his wife was still confined to her bed and was deeply regretting her inability to come over and see Tilly.

  7. And while he moved about his reason was slowly readjusting itself, and he felt poignantly his impotency, his inability to use even his love for dominance.

  8. Presently, from sheer inability to further control himself, the looker-on gave a laugh that rent the stillness of the afternoon like a cruel shock.

  9. The most noticeable results are a general weakness of the muscles and an inability on the part of the animal to balance itself.

  10. The inability of a colloid to penetrate a membrane is due to the fact that it does not form a true solution.

  11. Her hostess hardly spoke throughout the dinner, and Clancy was ill at ease, thinking that Mrs. Carey's silence was due to her own inability to talk.

  12. The difficulty, upon analysis, is seen to consist of the inability to conceive of "thought" as being a material substance capable of traveling in "waves.

  13. Danny leaned slightly forward from his hips and wrinkled his face in his inability to understand.

  14. After all, this scheme of things has its compensations, and inability to foretell the future may be one of the greatest.

  15. Their very inability to prevent the consummation of that Union, imbittered them.

  16. The inability of Congress to carry its legitimate powers into execution has gradually annulled those powers practically, but they always existed in theory.

  17. And, not satisfied with attempting to show as clearly as he seemed to know how, his own inability under the laws to stamp out Treason, he proceeded to consider what he thought Congress also could not do under the Constitution.

  18. A poor and simple girl may be pardoned her inability to distinguish so clearly.

  19. Dana, in which he excused his absence on account of his seventy-seven years and consequent inability to travel.

  20. Feeling my utter inability to do this, I ran away and tried to hide myself in one of the hospital tents.

  21. She was smiling sadly, smiling at her own inability in the past to deal with facts.

  22. Northrup was silent; his inability to express himself condemned him in her eyes, and yet, strangely enough, he had never been more desirable to her.

  23. Laughing and talking in undertones, they came to the dark shack and Larry, irritated at his inability to drop Maclin, unlocked the door and went in, followed by his unwelcome guest.

  24. She tried to resist the weight of it, and her sheer inability precipitated her into a sense of pitiful dependence.

  25. She declared her inability to sit and eat; she went to her room, after begging him very earnestly to send her the assurance that he had spoken.

  26. Animals so malformed rarely thrive well, from inability to crop their food.

  27. Although, as we have stated, our double inflatable boat partially failed in Australia, from the inability of the waterproof cement to bear the intense heat to which it was subjected, we believe that, had Messrs.

  28. The very first year I assembled them after my father's death, several of them had never seen each other for eight or ten years, in consequence of their inability to leave their homes.

  29. In fact, most of their complaints arise from their inability to get any justice done them by the Magistrates.

  30. Diabetes is a disease which is characterized by an inability on the part of the body to utilize the carbohydrates, in consequence of which there is abnormal excretion of glucose in the urine.

  31. The great increase in volume of urine voided would show an inability on the part of the kidneys to eliminate a highly concentrated urine.

  32. The Blood~ shows the presence of the toxic substances on account of the inability of the kidneys to eliminate them properly.

  33. Uremic Poisoning~ is an acute intoxication due to the abnormal retention of these poisons and the inability of the kidneys to eliminate them.

  34. Now when Jethniah had eaten all the wax that McQuade could press upon him, and when everyone else had stopped from sheer inability to proceed, McQuade was anxious for further festivities.

  35. And he shook his head in utter inability to deal with the matter.

  36. In case of the inability of both the governor and lieutenant- governor, who acts as governor?

  37. I shall be solicited by mothers, sisters, and disconsolate wives, and my heart will be broken through my inability to obtain all the mercy for which I would plead.

  38. I shall be solicited by mothers,sisters, and disconsolate wives, and my heart will be broken through my inability to obtain all the mercy for which I would plead.

  39. Pawing movements with the foot, inability to place weight upon it, loss of appetite, an increase in the number of respirations, and a serious rise of temperature, denote the opposite state of affairs.

  40. Nothing remains, then, but to acknowledge the inability to discover it, to advocate poulticing, or some other expectant palliative measure, and to bring the case up for further examination at no distant date.

  41. Later still there is distinct evidence of 'knuckling' over at the fetlock and inability to fully flex it.

  42. He declared his inability to pay his way, but as his way was never to pay at all, this argument availed him very little.

  43. She thought she was showing her inability to do what was expected of her in paying back the two dollars.

  44. She had the inability to make pretenses, either to others or to herself, which characterizes stupid people and also the large, simple natures.

  45. The inability to keep clean was the trial of trials.

  46. In that mood she pitied Wilfrid with a reckless sense of her inability to repay him for the harm she had done him.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    disability; disqualification; imbecility; inability; inadequacy; inaptitude; incapability; incapacity; incompetence; ineffectiveness; inefficiency; ineptitude; infancy; inferiority; insufficiency; maladjustment; mediocrity; minority; thoughtlessness; wardship