How to Use senility in a Sentence

senility

noun

• Heart failure, cardiac arrest and senility are all garbage codes.
  — USA Today, 22 Dec. 2021
• It was widely believed that its most common cause was senility, an extreme stage of aging.
  — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• André’s ego is too large and impregnable to be deflated by senility.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
• Trump and his allies are correct that Reagan’s critics accused him of senility in office.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• The age question isn’t just an issue of senility, but also representation.
  — Max Ufberg, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2021
• Few ideas in biology have been more fixed than the doctrine that people are born with a finite number of brain cells and go downhill from there, neuronwise, all the way to senility.
  — Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• This has nothing to do with conservative scare tactics about senility or a decades-long penchant for exaggeration and verbal gaffes.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
• Your 18-year-old cat could have health problems resulting in pain or could have a cognitive dysfunction, like senility or dementia.
  — chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Trump is only four years younger than Biden, but his bellicosity (to put it politely) has seemed to stave off accusations of senility.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• Capone is set in this latter period of his life and makes the senility real by blending scenes from Capone's rise into his everyday life to simulate jumbled memories.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Is Chuck Schumer headed down the same dark treadmill to senility pioneered by Dementia Joe Biden before him?
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
• Just as large majorities of the electorate were exposed to Biden’s onrushing senility, so will they be exposed to Harris’s numerous weaknesses.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Trump has repeatedly flipped the conversation about mental deterioration onto his opponent, who many have claimed also shows signs of senility.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• Defenders said her critics were confusing her patrician gentility for senility.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Trump has boosted a conspiracy theory that Biden’s administration used the autopen without his knowledge to cover up his alleged senility.
  — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
• Then the interview happens, and Thomas is swinging between lucidity and senility, and a million things about their relationship come up, and the fiction records the interview the phone couldn’t capture.
  — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
• These two cases also underscore how foreign suspicions of senility can have significant ramifications for foreign policy.
  — Joshua Byun, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2024
• Colin, an unemployed man in his 50s, and his mother, Barbara, teetering on the edge of senility, have lived in Room 4 for nearly a year, trying to fend off impending indignity.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• There are, however, some relevant differences between the situations of our two oldest presidents, likely reflective of the differences between senility and madness.
  — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
• That excludes people with certain conditions, like intellectual disabilities or senility.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Time to leave In addition to her children, all of whom are losing it in one way or another, Eilish is also tasked with caring for her elderly father Simon, who is sliding almost imperceptibly into senility.
  — David Faris, theweek, 23 Feb. 2024
• After the muddle of Kamala Harris and the senility of Joe Biden, Democrats need substantive and sophisticated leaders primed for traditional and new media alike.
  — Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• While both men accused one another of lies, bullying, and hypocrisy in their public duties, the debate was conducted entirely on the basis of public policy and statesmanship rather than corruption, criminality, senility, or other personal sins.
  — The Editors, National Review, 1 Dec. 2023
• Sherlock Holmes and obvious Sherlock Holmes proxies seem to be experiencing senility, drug addiction or general obsolescence with strange regularity.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019