How to Use frail in a Sentence
frail
adjective- In his old age his health became increasingly frail.
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The kid was a full head shorter than him, his arms thin-looking, frail.
— Aaron Gwyn, Esquire, 24 Apr. 2009 -
Brenda knows seeing her daughter in such a frail state can be hard for her friends.
— Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017 -
He was wrapped in a blue towel, and wads of cotton were stuffed around his frail body to keep him warm.
— Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2016 -
Old and frail people had to walk up very large steps to get into the terminal.
— AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2017 -
Her singing is frail but determined on this album, which hits like an intense whisper.
— Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2016 -
There’s a long tradition of dismissing women as weak and frail as a way to discredit them.
— Clare Foran, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2016 -
What role do family members play in caring for frail older adults and younger people with disabilities?
— Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 -
Owing to the stressful journey his mother undertook, the child was extremely frail.
— Sarah Salvadore, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017 -
Now at 93, Mom is too frail for the ambitious cooking and baking that was once her everyday passion.
— Domenica Marchetti, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017 -
The physicians examined an X-ray image of the frail woman’s abdomen and found a clump of pennies in her intestine.
— Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2008 -
Biden’s frail appearance and often-halting answers led to a surge in Democrats seeking to change the ticket ahead of the national conventions.
— Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024 -
After 13 months, the stress from all of her cloak-and-dagger dealings became so intense that the 38-year-old mom came down with shingles (a disease that usually strikes the old and frail).
— Blake Miller, Redbook, 21 Jan. 2012 -
The change isn’t the same in Churchill, who is a leader still determined to focus on the enemy menace—in this case Stalin and the Soviets—but one now frail, in ill health.
— Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2016 -
Friedrich, the youngest of the sons, was too frail to work in the vineyard.
— Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 27 June 2018 -
His game has looked rusty and his body has looked frail.
— Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019 -
That was in 1972, when Chaplin was eighty-two and frail.
— Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Why would a boy of Devonte's age be so small and frail?
— Glamour, 8 Jan. 2019 -
The 72-year-old inmate's body looks frail, but his mind and voice are sharp and clear.
— Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 4 June 2018 -
The few who are still alive are just too old or frail to come to the convention.
— Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019 -
The 96-year-old's lawyer had argued Groening was too frail to go to prison.
— Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018 -
Taken to jail in handcuffs, the pop star took this mug shot — and weighed in at a frail 120 lbs.
— Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023 -
On one side are people who are old and frail but can breathe and eat on their own.
— Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019 -
My mother, frail but with a Pimm’s cocktail in hand, was among them.
— Hilary Howard, New York Times, 6 July 2018 -
But Blackman’s frail frame is a concern for the Seminoles.
— Safid Deen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2017 -
But the thrice-weekly trips have taken a toll on these frail patients.
— Danica Coto, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018 -
Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
— Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024 -
Near the end of his life, old and frail, the man asks the gatekeeper a question: Why haven’t more people sought entrance at the door of the law?
— Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 -
Torres, 74, and her husband are too frail to leave their leave their homes for long stretches of time.
— Ed Lavandera, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017 -
Sadly, Biden, 81, is more frail, but his vision is strong.
— Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
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