frail

Definition:
1. Physically weak and thin.
2. Weak; easily damaged or broken.

Use 'frail' in a sentence:

• 1. For Haji Beardad, frail as he looks, is an important ally.
• 2. My grandmother was becoming more and more sad and frail as the years went by.
• 3. Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop， while it laughs it dies.
• 4. But the image persists of a pathetic waif, too frail for this world.
• 5. 2003: The Economy of Japan in Frail Recovery.
• 6. Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke.
• 7. This frail child did not survive.
• 8. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
• 9. She was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail.
• 10. The Chinese legal system of macroeconomy control is very frail in theory and practice.
• 11. It would appear that the reasons go deeper than Thatcher's frail health.
• 12. Somehow he looked older and frailer in his city clothes.
• 13. Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.
• 14. The frail cat was taken to the vet for treatment.
• 15. Thirdly, the system function is frail.
• 16. Her frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
• 17. "Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice.
• 18. Yet despite this good news, housing finance is frail as ever.
• 19. The frail wooden bridge cracked.
• 20. Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.
• 21. Thorough the development, the target system frail degree will give better guidance to the safety management.
• 22. The boy was frail and never ganged with his fellows at school.
• 23. Prosecutors risk seeming to torment a frail old man.
• 24. The acid rain and industry reject let the human environment be even more frail;
• 25. Since then, Japan began its attempt to conquer increasingly frail China.
• 26. How thin it is, and how dainty and frail; and how it rattles.
• 27. At last Becky's frail limbs refused to carry her farther.
• 28. The frail boat rocked as he clambered in.
• 29. There is a frail, negative Chinese image in their media.
• 30. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
• 31. This frail relation lets life lose the time.
• 32. The bridge is a frail wooden structure.
• 33. Yet in other moments he seems petulant, tentative and even frail.
• 34. I'm not a frail old man yet.
• 35. She was still feeling a bit frail.
• 36. The old man is growing thin and frail.
• 37. There was an unspoken agreement that he and Viv would look after the frail old couple.
• 38. But a peace maintained by deterrence alone is a frail thing.
• 39. It becomes a weak, frail sapling.
• 40. At 90, she's getting very old and frail.
• 41. He spoke with senior editor T. A. Frail by phone.
• 42. One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for.
• 43. The peaceful passing of a very old, frail lady is not a tragedy.
• 44. Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
• 45. He looked increasingly frail in recent months.
• 46. A frail economy ought at least to be free of price pressures but Britons have had no such luck.
• 47. He was becoming frail, but loved to work as always.
• 48. Though hope is frail, its hard to kill.
• 49. The frail craft rocked as he clambered in.
• 50. Before the trial Liz had been pictured as a frail woman dominated by her husband.
• 51. Human nature is frail.
• 52. She lay in bed looking frail.
• 53. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort.