Senile

//ˈsinaɪl//

"Senile" in a Sentence (13 examples)

He had grown senile recently.

Grandfather is quite senile.

It's better to go senile while you're still young. It'll save you the trouble of having to do it later.

He's gone senile.

I'm not senile.

Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.

We'll be old and senile before that happens.

Forgiveness is the first sign of senile weakness.

He's old and senile and can't take care of himself anymore.

My grandpa has become really senile these days.

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Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.

Seniles differ markedly in their early adult intelligence level, and in their social, vocational, and educational histories.

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