impotent

Example Sentences

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In statistical terms, they were two of the most impotent attacking displays by any Premier League team this season.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 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

Bound up from head to tail, it couldn't swim anymore and was now a twenty-mile-long deadweight, looped in over itself like a ring of impotent fury.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda