How to Use impaired in a Sentence

impaired

adjective
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  • The impaired woman’s 11-year-old daughter was with her in the car when the crash occurred.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 14 May 2022
  • Coote noted that the driver of the car was screened at the scene and determined not to be impaired.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • At all times make sure there’s a non-impaired driver behind the wheel.
    — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2022
  • At least, not as impaired as his lawyers would have the jury believe.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
  • At its worst, MS can lead to impaired speech and paralysis.
    — Liz Szabo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And there have been those who have suffered massive strokes that have left them impaired.
    — Annie Karni, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Add to that impaired vision, hearing loss, and the worst threat of all—confusion.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Injury to that area leads to an impaired sense of identity.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Delta 8 can cause impaired motor skills, just like delta-9 THC.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Viruses can get sick in the sense that their normal function is impaired.
    — The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Romero said that after the crash, the driver got out of his vehicle and appeared to be impaired.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • Adults can be at risk in lakes or open water when impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
  • During the delta wave, the odds people would experience an impaired sense of smell fell to 44%.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 July 2022
  • Swift compared the work of his former unit to stopping impaired drivers.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2022
  • For those that are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing or speech-impaired can call the Michigan Relay Center at 711.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And then there’s Fox’s speech, which has also become more impaired in recent years.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2023
  • Then a string of arrests for impaired driving landed him in legal trouble, and his fourth DUI, a felony, sent him to prison for six months.
    — Sara Jean Green, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Officers responding to a crash into a tree and found Spracklen to be impaired.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • About 70 percent of the buildings tagged by the city as severely impaired or outright destroyed were on or very near the coastline.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Trump had harsh things to say about Biden, at one point calling him cognitively impaired.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Anyone can be at risk in lakes or open water when either impaired, swimming alone or unaware of how to swim.
    — Kye Graves, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2023
  • Anyone can be at risk in lakes or open water when either impaired, swimming alone, or unaware of how to swim.
    — The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
  • Court records show that Aparicio was convicted of impaired driving in June.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2022
  • My mildly impaired cognition had a hard time taking this in.
    — John Crowley, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • This could be a useful tool for people who are visually impaired.
    — Karen Weise, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The 51-year-old Westlake resident appeared to be impaired.
    — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The Rocky River driver was arrested for impaired driving and drug abuse.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Police conducted field sobriety tests but found that the man was he not impaired.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The driver of a Chevrolet Malibu rear-ended a Toyota Rav4 and was cited for impaired driving.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Romero said after the crash, the driver exited his vehicle and appeared to be impaired.
    — Nick Valencia, CNN, 8 May 2023

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