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How to use feebly in a sentence

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With that, she left through a fancily decorated screen door and shut it feebly behind her.
Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless.
Her hands clutched feebly around the silky pillowcase and her parched throat just barely managed to utter a low pain filled moan.
So he is forced into a feebly slow, piecemeal approach to an issue where boldness above all is required.
In its last days Rome panicked and grew authoritarian, but feebly, pettily so.
He was swishing it in each time and slowly strolling to the ball, which bounced feebly once when it hit the surface and remained inert.
After three days of recuperation in the ICU, I was released from the hospital, walking feebly and trying to salve my ego.
I stopped pacing and started running feebly, my heart now racing in fear, the sounds in the woods growing incredibly loud and frightening.
The girls' high-street finery, a Lycra mishmash of tat and glitter, sparkles feebly under red, yellow and purple neon strip lights.
In the flickering shadows, she glimpsed the boy curled up feebly in the corner.
One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
She often wheezed asthmatically, sneezed feebly, blew her nose, and coughed against her fist or palm.
Hathorne feebly lifted one of the jade pieces and moved it diagonally to the edge of the board.
Like the Jack O'Lantern glowing feebly from the front porch, the movie's script is hollow.
When she feebly started to push herself upright they jumped back and whispered to each other.
She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
The boy whimpered, and his small fingers clutched feebly at the man, tangling in the fabric of his shirt.
When something is badly organised, awkwardly structured and feebly managed, the inquiries and inquisitions commence.
He stared around the crowded bar miserably, reminding himself feebly that he was working.
Rusty horns screech feebly, like the poor birds unable to fly south for the winter.
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But as she paused again her emotion became overwhelming, and she clutched feebly at the bedrail.
It stirred and began to chitter feebly, very sleepy and cross at being awakened.
For so long she had acted a part, that it would be tragic to break down feebly, contemptibly, now close to the end of the drama.
She walked slowly and feebly, as if she were convalescing from a long illness.
He, for his part, had a countervailing grudge against the world, fancying the work he did for it but feebly remunerated.
And now her senses began feebly to regather within truer limits and to tell her she was lying on the rooty ground of a thicket.
The bicarbonate is in colourless prisms, which have a saline, feebly alkaline taste, and are not deliquescent.
Every pound of guncotton did its work, and though the ruins burned, it was but feebly.
Mr. Purdy, flushing feebly, saw her to the door, saw her to the hall without.
The crests for the tergal depressor muscles are either absent or very feebly developed.
Tongue long, with papillae, like that of the Lacertidae but only feebly nicked anteriorly.
But the mind of Ho-tai had begun to come back to him, feebly as from a far journey.
She but feebly blamed me, when she spoke, for not hearing what Mr. Solmes had to say.
Joshua came up quite feebly, swathing his black face with his red handkerchief and bowed humbly to his former mistress.
Willard gazed through the window with lackluster eyes and shook his head feebly.
Both laughed a little, the philosophe feebly, and Aurora with an excited tremor.
She turned so that she could bring her starboard guns into action, and they did so feebly.
A feebly basic or alkaloidal body, existing in and forming the active principle of ipecacuanha.
Out of the fumy darkness insects dropped, stunned with light, and moved feebly on the path.
When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
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