Use impotent in a sentence
Sentences ending with impotent
- Even the enemy was the same as at Austerlitz and Friedland--yet the terrible stroke of his arm had supernaturally become impotent. [2]
- Bitter wrath rose up in his soul at this thought, as it had often done before, with the immortals, against whom he, the all-powerful, was impotent. [10]
- Thus, working together, they made a strong team; laboring together, they could do miracles; but break the circuit, and both were impotent. [5]
- Thereafter, amid all the clouds of falsehood and ridicule which we had to encounter, there was one lighthouse fixed on a rock to which we could go for foothold, from which we could not be driven, and against which all assaults were impotent. [6]
- No wonder they scorn the Congress as weak and impotent. [9]
More example sentences with the word impotent in them
- There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account. [9]
- In politics they were Armagnacs--patriots; they were for our own French King, crazy and impotent as he was. [5]
- He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
- This Sovereign must triumph over every foe, even over death--the monster that lay writhing in impotent rage at his feet! [10]
- The Indians ran to their lodges for spears and hatchets, though the weapons of many were within the Fort, and soon they were about the place, shouting in impotent rage. [11]
- The longer he thought, tormenting himself to find some way out of it all, the more confused he became, and the more impotent his efforts at resistance. [10]
- The horses in the next chariot bolted as they were being driven past this mass of plunging and neighing confusion; they defied their driver's impotent efforts and galloped across the course back into the caiceres. [10]
- And the more she confessed, the more she apparently yielded, the more impotent he seemed, the tighter the demon gripped him. [9]
- Three or four policemen fought their way to the spot, striving to clear the tracks, bewildered and impotent in the face of the alien horde momentarily growing more and more conscious of power. [9]
- Apart from the land-office crowds, and looking on in silent rage, stood a group of the old settlers,--tall, lean, powerful, yet impotent for lack of a leader. [9]
- It was the impotent rebellion against the first curse, that man in his punishment should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow--which he might do with joy--while the woman must work out her ordained sentence "in sorrow all the days of her life. [11]
- A feeling of impotent indignation suddenly took possession of her. [11]
- The hermit, grinding his teeth in impotent rage, moved swiftly out of the bedchamber, closing the door behind him; and straightway the King heard a talk, to this effect, proceeding from the 'chapel':-- "Homage and greeting, reverend sir! [5]
- As he listened he thought of his eldest son, partly imbecile, all but a lusus naturae, separated from his wife immediately after marriage, through whom there could never be succession--he thought of him, and for the millionth time in his life winced in impotent disdain. [11]
- Mrs. Armour would have hours of hesitation and impotent regret before she brought herself to speak of her son to his Indian wife. [11]
- He felt the convulsive spring in the form of a faint, impotent spasm,--the rush of air,--the thorns of the stinging and lacerating cradle into which he was precipitated. [6]
- Her arms dropped by her side: powerful and terrible as she had felt herself this morning, she was now crushed by a sense of miserable and impotent weakness. [10]
- The King raged and stormed, and promised to hang the two the moment the sceptre was in his hand again; but they kept a firm grip upon him and enjoyed his impotent struggling and jeered at his threats. [5]
- In that, too, a lack of comprehension, an impotent anger at a visitation not understood, a punishment apparently unmerited. [9]
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