How to use inability in a sentence

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• His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.From the entry weakness
• Leptosols are unattractive soils for rainfed agriculture because of their inability to hold water.From the entry leptosol
• Early signs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy may include pseudohypertrophy (enlargement of calf muscles), low endurance, and difficulties in standing unaided or inability to ascend staircases.From the entry pseudohypertrophy
• Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal?”, in Deutsche Welle. From the entry Brexit
• Biden's irritation with London's inability to solve its "Irish question" after Brexit has also played a role.2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK-US: What's happened to their free trade deal?”, in dw.com, sourced from…. From the entry Irish Question
• He adds that NR was constantly frustrated by its inability to get access to the Melton track.2021 June 16, Andrew Mourant, “Plans for New Test Centre Remain on Track”, in Rail, number 933, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media…. From the entry block-book
• A social hangover generally feels a lot like a burnout: fatigue, inability to concentrate, some grouchiness.2021 May 16, Rhys Thomas, “How to tell if you have a ‘social hangover’ (and how to minimise one if you do)”, in GQ, archived from the…. From the entry social hangover
• That's when I discovered I had aphantasia, the inability to conjure mental images.2020 July 15, Serena Puang, “Living with aphantasia, the inability to make mental images”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry aphantasia
• It’s the inability of even large bipartisan majorities to get what they want on issues like these.2019 March 5, Tim Wu, “The Oppression of the Supermajority”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021. From the entry supermajority
• Not for a hot minute did she think it changed her inability to have lasting love.2017, Julie Ann Walker, Hot Pursuit, →ISBN. From the entry hot minute
• Wang’s death was driven by despair over his financial situation and inability to educate his younger children.2014 June 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Father’s Day Plea to Educate China’s ‘Illegal’ Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Xingyi
• Homeology is usually measured by the ability or inability of chromosomes to pair and to form chiasmata.1991, V. V. Sivarajan, N. K. P. Robson, Introduction to the Principles of Plant Taxonomy, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry homeology
• "And as we see here"—tapping the pad that he still held—"inability to write: agraphia."1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London, page 159. From the entry agraphia
• They've spared you from their inability to communicate."2024 January 18, “'Burnt Toast Theory': What It Is And Why It Went Viral”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024. From the entry burnt toast theory
• For London, Beeching decries the low fares, resulting in an inability to justify investment in capacity enhancement despite severe overcrowding.2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 47–48. From the entry decry
• But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry bulletproof
• It’s a theoretical framework that illuminates society’s inability to recognize our humanity — the disdain, disregard and disgust for our existence.2020 June 4, Kihana Miraya Ross, “Call It What It Is: Anti-Blackness”, in New York Times. From the entry antiblackness
• Of all their regrets, it was their inability to score an away goal that might wind up Klopp the most.2019 May 1, Daniel Taylor, “Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool”, in The Guardian. From the entry wind up
• Often people who curse a lot are deemed having 'sailor mouths' because of their inability to avoid the crude language.2019 April 4, DailyMail.com reporter, “What the f***? People who curse are likely to be better FRIENDS to others - because they tend to be…. From the entry sailor mouth
• They align with their symptom clusters along two major axes: anxiety and anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure).2018, Steve Bloem, The Pastoral Handbook of Mental Illness, page 56. From the entry neurotype
• Today Mercury meets the Sun: Will we find a sense of mental confidence, or will we display our inability to relate?2015 September 30, Annabel Gat, “Daily Horoscope: September 30, 2015”, in Vice, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 30 Mar 2025. From the entry reexamination
• She was aware of her inability to argue logically and blamed her years of domestic stodgery for her brain damage.2014, K. M. Peyton, Late to Smile. From the entry stodgery
• After 3 years of embolisation, the patient started having chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhoea and polymenorrhagia along with inability to conceive.2013 July 4, Nilanchali Singh et al., “Xanthomatous oophoritis following uterine artery embolisation: successful conservative surgical…. From the entry polymenorrhagia
• One condition is the city's almost inevitable destruction of burned houses, even when architecturally reconfigured—its inability to recognize unreal estate's unvalues.2012, Andrew Herscher, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit. From the entry unvalue
• The power wall refers to the inability to significantly increase the clock frequency of a processor (CPU) without heroic cooling measures.2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems. From the entry heroic cooling
• It's just that some women don't see an inability to walk as a problem in the pursuit of (misguided) fashionability.2010 November 14, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian. From the entry fashionability
• An old soul will often change jobs not because of an inability to perform, but rather because the job is unfulfilling.2010, Laurel Phelan, Healing Through Time, page 57. From the entry old soul
• Such individuals were generally decent, but marked by flat, coaxing talkativeness and an inability to understand any sort of serious matter.2006, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology, Afterword, p. 221-222. From the entry debilism
• The central paradox of Linton's writing was her inability, or unwillingness, to imagine an asexual friendship between women.2004, Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: women who loved women, 1778-1928, page 150. From the entry asexual
• The problem at hand is not the inability of the Arabs and the Jews to live together peacefully.2001, Ghaith Mahmood, “Problem is about oppression, not coexistence”, in The Daily Bruin, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2007. From the entry at hand
• Like language itself, these events remain un-decodable, a metaphor only of the world's inability to supply interperable meanings.1994, Stephen Snyder, The transparent I: self/subject in European cinema, Peter Lang Pub Inc. From the entry interperable
• The major limitation of crossectional surveys is their inability to determine any temporal relationship between the factor and the event.1993, David Banting, “Alternatives to Conventional Clinical Caries Trials”, in William H. Bowen, Lawrence A. Tabak, editors, Cariology for…. From the entry crossectional
• Fourth most important factor was inability on the part of University authorities to take disciplinary action against the trouble-mongers.1980, The Bangladesh Journal of Psychology, volume 6, Bangladesh Psychological Association, page 9. From the entry trouble-monger
• In fact, Fielding's inability to understand Richardson is mainly the result of his inability to understand Richardsonian complexity of characterization.1967, Philip Stevick, Theory of the Novel, page 382. From the entry Richardsonian
• The basic aberration is inability to control motion.1951, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, The Research and Discovery Series, New Era Publications, page 76. From the entry superultimate
• This inability to differentiate the directions in relation to each other is a possible cause of optical agnosis.1934, the New York Neurological Association, the Philadelphia Neurological Society, and the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology…. From the entry agnosis
• "Inability to speak, that is of course," amplified Dr.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London, page 159. From the entry agraphia
• Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped.2021 January 2, Roni Caryn Rabin, “Some Covid Survivors Haunted by Loss of Smell and Taste”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry anosmia
• This phrase follows the logic of the blackpill that life is hopeless for incels due to their inability to reach stereotypical standards of masculinity.2020, Anne Jones, Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online (thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida), page…. From the entry black pill
• They suffered growing deprivation as a result of an inability to access better-paid jobs, as the closure of older industries removed employment.2020 December 16, Industry Insider, “Rail's prospects turn full circle”, in Rail, page 68. From the entry better-paid

Meaning of inability

1. noun Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
2. noun Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.

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Questions about inability in a sentence

How do you use inability in a sentence?

Inability is used as a noun. For example: “His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.”

What is a short sentence with inability?

“The basic aberration is inability to control motion.”

What does inability mean?

Inability means lack of the ability to do something; incapability.