Sentence examples for became infirm from inspiring English sources

(When he became infirm, he had assistants to pull the arms of one-armed bandits for him).

Jasmine, a double-yellow-headed Amazon now around 10 years old, was given up by an owner who became infirm after a series of strokes.

They plan to clean up and paint the house, but there will be no renovation, beyond rebuilding one wall in the master bedroom, which Rudolph took out when he became infirm.

While this finding might not seem, on its face, altogether positive — the fit and the unfit alike generally became infirm at some point, the Medicare records showed — the results should be viewed as encouraging, says Dr. Benjamin Willis, a staff epidemiologist at the Cooper Institute who led the study.

The question is how to serve those who become infirm or ill.

Suffering gets embedded in violence, which distracts us from decay and from what we will become: infirm, wrinkled, rank.

"People don't like reminders that they, or people who they love, will become infirm," she said.

That number is expected to grow as elderly Americans increasingly become infirm and baby boomers face their own health crises.

Instead of confining elderly Medicaid patients in nursing homes when they become infirm, why not give them a broad array of options, everything from home care to adult day care centers and assisted living?

To questions about a child's right to grow up with its parents before they die or become infirm, she shrugs, saying that the extended family will step in.

Even as she works to expand and improve the sanctuary, whose $250,000-a-year operating budget is financed by donations, Ms. Erden worries about a potential flood of unwanted parrots as pet-owning baby boomers become infirm.