How to Use feeble in a Sentence

feeble

adjective

• We heard a feeble cry for help.
• She's still feeble from her long illness.
• He made a feeble attempt to explain his behavior.
• He offered a feeble excuse for his behavior.
• Business is suffering because of the feeble economy.
• The Wildcats’ feeble offense had no chance to close that gap.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2019
• Once again, even against a feeble last-place opponent, the inconsistent offense took way too long to get started.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• All of that rendering beauty sets up Luigi's feeble, adorable terror.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2019
• When the team retrieves the carousel, a gray cylindrical frame outfitted with sensors and large sampling bottles, the winch is too feeble to hoist it on deck.
  — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• The six-day spectacle included shameful statements, slimy cover-ups and feeble apologies that left a cloud over baseball’s best team.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 26 Oct. 2019
• Plummeting stock prices could also drag down already feeble levels of business investment.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2019
• The degree of difficulty was low in carving up a feeble Lions defense that struggles to rush the passer or take the ball away.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The Boilermakers, with a roster ravaged by injuries, qualify as a feeble team.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2019
• Lack of refrigeration can easily cause food to spoil, and unpredictable fires and feeble camp stoves can lead to undercooking mistakes.
  — Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
• The polls were held to pick about 450 representatives to district councils, rather feeble bodies that deal with local services.
  — The Economist, 25 Nov. 2019
• Business investment, which has been hobbled by trade fights, feeble growth overseas and resulting weakness in manufacturing, fell for the third straight month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2020
• Their feeble attempts to overturn the results of a free and fair election resulted in the emboldening of the targets of the recall attempts and Democrats in general.
  — Ian Silverii, The Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• One is the picture of youth, the other gray and feeble.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 June 2022
• In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty feeble.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• The sky began to shed a feeble, dry snow into the wind.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• The keeper of the deck log reached the bow at last and let out five feeble honks, surely too late to do any good.
  — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
• The feeble sun slid beneath the mountains as Mum called us in for supper.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Add that to the list of dishes whose connection to their own name is feeble at best.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Gaza Strip’s already feeble health system is being brought to its knees by the fourth war in just over a decade.
  — Fares Akram and Aya Batrawy, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• My poor mother has spent too many years putting up with feeble hugs from the arms of her deadbeat son.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• They were shoved into lines, and those deemed too old, too young or too feeble were murdered the same day.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
• As the nurse helped him out of the wheelchair, my family saw for the first time how feeble his body had become.
  — Melinda Butler Mayo, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2022
• Yet such assaults betray a transparent desperation—feeble barbs hurled from the mezzanine.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
• The deal shows that in some instances, office buildings in the Bay Area can command rising property values despite a feeble commercial real estate market in the nine-county region.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024