frail

[freɪl]

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.