FRAIL in a Sentence
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55 example sentences for FRAIL, such as:
1. His frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
2. She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
3. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
4. Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
5. She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
2. She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
3. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
4. Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
5. She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FRAIL
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frail
a. physically weak
a. easily broken or damaged or destroyed
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1 Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.
2 Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.
3 She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
4 She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
5 He told me when they moved on that the girls would recover but your mother-- She was so frail, he said--too frail to stand it all.
6 With a thrill she looked up at the frail swaying girl for whom she had never had any feelings but of dislike and contempt.
7 She looked, and was, frail but she was willing, obedient and obliging.
8 I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
9 No one could be more dominating than stout Mrs. Merriwether, more imperious than frail Mrs. Elsing, more artful in securing her own ends than the silver-haired sweet-voiced Mrs. Whiting.
10 Ashley sat on Ellen's little writing chair, his long body dwarfing the frail bit of furniture while Scarlett offered him a half- interest in the mill.
11 But Nettie Struther's frail envelope was now alive with hope and energy: whatever fate the future reserved for her, she would not be cast into the refuse-heap without a struggle.
12 IT was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the Johnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper.
13 The daring black chemise of frail chiffon and lace was a hussy at which the deep-bosomed bed stiffened in disgust, and she hurled it into a bureau drawer, hid it beneath a sensible linen blouse.
14 She went into the house, a frail small woman, still winsome but hopeless of eye as she staggered with the weight of the drowsy boy in her arms.
15 One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
Example Sentence:
1 Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
2 She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
3 His frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
4 He was 49 years old and in frail health, suffering from diabetes.
5 Looking as frail as eggshells, she deflected questions with a hint of asperity, as any woman of her upbringing might have done.