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.
• 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 Wildcats’ feeble offense had no chance to close that gap.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Los Angeles has weathered the storm, thanks in part to a feeble NL West.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 29 May 2018
• 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
• And the hitter around whom the entire franchise is built continues to look feeble at the plate.
  — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 18 May 2018
• Winston Smith awakens in the basement of the Ministry of Love, groggy and dazed, scared and feeble.
  — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• The Hawks, meanwhile, appeared feeble when they were throttled by Boston in the first two games of this first-round matchup.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• Outside, a shuttle bus was dispatched to drive in front of the protesters in a feeble effort to block the noise.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• But by the end of that year, the yield on the U.S. bond market had fallen to barely more than 1%—meaning that future returns were bound to be feeble.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Purists maintain the franchise owes it to itself to win since the division isn’t out of any team’s feeble reach.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
• The stalwarts of yore are dismissed as old media, a feeble rear guard that leads from behind.
  — Paul Blanchard, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• The insult leads to shoving, Knight says, and shoving leads to a couple of feeble punches.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Given that Biden is truly in feeble shape, this isn’t a strong showing.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
• From this premise, the film starts to spin a feeble air of mystery when someone knocks over some of the graves in the middle of the night and Karsh starts to investigate.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
• But here, Medusa and Persephone are not feeble captives of the Underworld or scorned women constantly seeking revenge.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
• Empty spaces, tech layoffs and feeble rents haunt office buildings.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024