How to use incapable in a sentence

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• The damaged submarine came up successfully, but was incapable of resubmerging and was captured on the surface.From the entry resubmerge
• In the belief system of his day, chimpanzees were described as subhuman and asserted to be incapable of feeling pain.From the entry subhuman
• His ignorance, insecurity, hateful soul and lack of honest experienced associates make him incapable of success.2025 August 19, Dawna Stromsoe, “The Jim Acosta Show with Joyce Vance James Glancy and Elise Labott”, in Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance…. From the entry Trumpstein files
• But when asked to describe how it operates, many are incapable of explaining it.2018 October 15, Jennifer Baldwin, Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology, Rowman &…. From the entry Dunning-Kruger
• You were so pie-eyed drunk you were incapable of doing anything whatsoever.2016, Marissa St. James, chapter 5, in Fool’s Gold (McKinley Jewels; 2), White Bear Lake, Minn.: Melange Books, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry pie-eyed
• Brainish men are ambitious and incapable, while discreet men are timid and excessively conservative.2012, You-sheng Chen, LunYu - Confucian Analects in Chinese & English. From the entry brainish
• If a society is incapable of that kind of trust, it is also incapable of freedom.2012, Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way. From the entry do one's duty
• She seems almost incapable of abstraction or fraudulence; she instinctively grabs for the reachably real.2012 April 30, James Wood, “Invitation To a Beheading”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry reachably
• Frost a glitz-hound and possible nincompoop, incapable of the obduracy required for such a reportorial effort.2007 April 26, Ginia Bellafante, “The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A”, in New York Times. From the entry stonewaller
• Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet). From the entry wikipedia
• Debiles were incapable of subtle intellectual feelings, which Soviet psychiatry defined as duty, comradeship and satisfaction.1999, Andrew Boyd, Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless, Lion, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry debile
• You said that I was a fellow incapable of being affectionate.1990, Han Soo-san, translated by Kim Seong-kon, Floating Grass, Seoul: Dong-suh-Munhuk-sa, Inc., page 86. From the entry inaffectionate
• I was a sleepwalker, incapable of controlling or recalling my nocturnal activities.1989, Elaine K. Stirling, Sleepwalker, page 184. From the entry sleepwalker
• Spermatogenic cells appear to be incapable of autodifferentiation in an anhormonal environment.1981, C. R. Austin, Colin Russell Austin, Robert Geoffrey, Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation in Animals and Man, page 66. From the entry autodifferentiation
• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly.1951, Albert Camus, The Rebel, page 46. From the entry Byronic hero
• Challenger has filled you with his nonsense and you are both incapable of reason."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry pigs may fly
• Birrell, at least, is incapable of asking us to read anything inconsequent or dull.1905 December, H[enry] W[alcott] Boynton, “Books New and Old”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and…. From the entry quotation
• Cuttings in a vase lost their turgor, incapable of drawing up the water and nutrients that once kept them supple.2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry turgor
• What does it mean to be incapable of rephrasing a thought, of turning it around in one's mind in fresh ways?2020, Roderick P. Hart, Trump and Us: What He Says and Why People Listen, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry small words
• We’re incapable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens.2017 December 30, Stuart Jeffries, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han – review”, in The Guardian. From the entry psychopolitics
• She is notorious for being incapable of passively enjoying stories.2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry fangirl
• He saw necessity as amounting to a 'defect of the will' which renders one incapable of committing a crime, 4 Bl.2011, Eimear Spain, The Role of Emotions in Criminal Law Defences, page 117. From the entry Bl. Com.
• At the World Bank, for example, the lavishly paid globocrats seem incapable of stopping payment to Third World kleptoptocracies.2007 April 26, Ken Adelman, “Troubles from Thailand”, in The Washington Times. From the entry globocrat
• The Ghosts stumbling through darkness, incapable of seeing her instructions, misdigging false channels, adding to the chaos of the Instant.2000, Richard Garfinkle, All of an Instant. From the entry misdig
• Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) is terminally incapable of zipping it up.1998, Monica Sullivan, VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, page 18. From the entry zip up
• Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry yap
• Nevertheless, I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started the climb up my belly.1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, page 18. From the entry dong
• So was a generation bred, more and more incapable of serious reading, of serious reflection, even of a primitive kind.1950, Philip Hughes, edited by George Andrew Beck, The English Catholics, 1850-1950. From the entry gelasma
• Without some such institution, Kay warned, modern investment management was incapable of acting as owners who would discipline company executives and boards.2025 November 14, John Authers, “Has Passive Investing Grown Too Big to Proxy? The inconvenient truth of shareholder detachment surfaces…. From the entry big three
• He is constitutionally incapable of displeasing a live audience, let alone a foreign potentate who has recently lassoed him with a golden chain.2017 May 21, Graeme Wood, “Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2017. From the entry potentate
• The use of a cell-free plasma membrane vesicle (PMV) system has established that PMV from GO cells are incapable of actively accumulating ALA.2010, Proceedings of the ... International Congress of Biochemistry, volume 11, page 467. From the entry PMV
• But supply convoys are the soft underbelly of a powerful, modern military force that the Taliban is incapable of matching in conventional combat.2009 March 30, Mustafa Qadri, “Nato's soft underbelly”, in The Guardian. From the entry soft underbelly
• Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.2008, David E. Johnson, Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture, Fordham University Press, →ISBN, Ex-Cited Dialogue, page 107. From the entry uninitiated
• Speakers from any one of the major fangyan are incapable of conversing with speakers from those of any of the other major fangyan.2005 January 31, Victor H. Mair, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, University of…. From the entry fangyan
• A true addict, by definition, is a person whose body and brain are incapable of functioning like normalwise without a particular outside substance.2003, McVea, Memoir of a Modern Opium Eater. From the entry normalwise
• However, most of the time, Schulman is incapable of setting us up sturdily enough to make knocking us down into an interesting enterprise.1984 December 29, Amy Hoffman, “Dyke Detectives Solve Murder Mysteries”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9. From the entry sturdily

Meaning of incapable

1. adjective Not capable (of doing something); unable.
2. adjective Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
3. noun One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

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Questions about incapable in a sentence

How do you use incapable in a sentence?

Incapable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.”

What is a short sentence with incapable?

“I consider him incapable of dishonesty.”

What does incapable mean?

Incapable means not capable (of doing something); unable.