How to Use unimpaired in a Sentence

unimpaired

adjective
  • His body was crippled by gout but his wisdom and judgment were unimpaired.
    Martin Dyckman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Marcoux was unimpaired and driving 40 mph over the speed limit at the time of the crash.
    Ryan Vlahovich, azcentral, 15 Feb. 2020
  • What might someone with unimpaired vision see when looking at Dorothy?
    Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • For unimpaired drivers, the seat belt is the best defense against a drunk driver, according to the release.
    River Valley Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That means people with Alzheimer’s may live many years, possibly even until death, with their thinking unimpaired.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Spelling out the issue would also be pointless, as the unimpaired spouse is only too aware of the impact his partner’s behavior is having on their social life.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The intel vessel soon was spotted sailing back into Sevastopol, seemingly unimpaired.
    David Axe, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The roof calls for a zero-proof cocktail in one hand (for unimpaired stairs negotiation) and binoculars in the other, to scope out the view of Filucy Bay and beyond.
    Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
  • This discovery fits with previous work that showed people with damage to this brain region had trouble assessing their own decision-making, even though their performances on a task were unimpaired.
    Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2010
  • An alcohol-only diet would throw most species for a loop, but new research suggests that hornets can live—apparently unimpaired—with an 80 percent ethanol sugar solution as their sole food source.
    Rachel Berkowitz, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Financially, notwithstanding the revenue collapse last year, Heinemann claims to be in a sound position with its independence unimpaired.
    Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Once these technologies have been proven safe and reliable for people with disabilities, some people with unimpaired bodies will start clamoring to use them as technological augmentations.
    Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2014
  • All were without dementia and cognitively unimpaired during testing and had undergone one of two types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • The forecasts by the Department of Water Resources reflect unimpaired runoff, water that comes from a river basin unimpeded — the figures do not account for water management measures.
    Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The architecture within those cities depends heavily on symmetries and proportions derived from unimpaired human bodies and average physiology — windows as eyes, doors as mouths, cornices as hair or headgear, and so on.
    Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Property evaluations were far below replacement costs that researchers at Tulane University had recommended based on comparable homes unimpaired by toxins.
    Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The tariffs on Mexico – which start at 5% on June 10 and then escalate in increments from there – will have direct implications for the automotive industry, which has relied on the unimpaired flow of goods across the border to keep costs low.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2019

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