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How to use frail in a sentence

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To those walking past his room he was like any other frail old man teetering at his walking frame like a branch swaying in a cruel breeze.
Prevailing orthodoxy is that children are psychically frail creatures who require constant protection to cope with life's vicissitudes.
And the pope, we're told, kept up his full, vigorous schedule this Christmas Eve, despite his frail health.
The lower initial dose should be administered to patients who are frail or have other comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular disease.
She crouched down, and wrapped her arms around her frail body, covering her face with her hands.
This could be let down by the fact that he hasn't had a big hit record for years, and he might be too frail to stage such a comeback.
Baroness Thatcher, dressed all in black, looked frail as she clasped the handrail for support before being driven away.
A frail, headscarved old lady halted the marchers and passed out home-baked cakes.
It won't matter how young or old you are, our secret police enforcers are especially good at roughing up frail old men.
Every wall I had constructed to keep myself from hurting deeply, from being vulnerable, eroded away into nothingness, leaving me alone and frail.
One man, thin and frail with fine blonde hair, was talking to the comm screen.
Every sign of meekness was eliminated as the frail child became the robust, headstrong youth.
Frances looked incredibly frail, needing the support of a walking stick, and she asked me to help her up and off the stage.
During one stretch in September, Pina belied his frail, string bean appearance by working in eight of Oakland's 10 games.
Eric was struggling to break free, each gesture binding him tighter and tighter, squeezing his ribs and his frail arm.
Hamlet scorns his mother and denounces women as frail, inconstant, and deceitful.
Lesley, a frail girl born with a heart defect which stunted her growth and left her in poor health, was found 10 miles from her home.
I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes.
She was frail and her childlike appearance made her innocence all the more apparent.
It was a tone at once chipper and woeful that suggested Maddy was a frail eggshell-spirited thing and had best be treated gently.
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Examples from Classical Literature
How tenderly the frail bodies of Coleridge and of Francis Thompson were cared for by their appreciators.
The heavy ax whistled through the air in a single mighty stroke that cleft the centaurian's frail body nearly in two.
If a comment on frail appearance would thus depress our friend, surely the contrary assurance ought to chirk him up in proportion.
There is but one frail girl child between him and Lagunitas, with its uncoined millions.
I felt how frail, how dissoluble, were the fiery links that bound my feeble spirit to that strong immortal.
If his boat were not so frail and his arms were stronger, by pressing on and onward he could escape.
My condition was all too plain as I leaned against her frail body for support.
Honours and dignities are transient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb.
A frail man, with a bald head and a squiggly moustache, stood up behind his desk.
It was like killing a butterfly with a steam hammer, to loose so much vengeance against this frail piece of china.
When, however, the frail figure drooped silently and inertly against the waist strap he seemed to know even in the darkness.
The ironwork of the doors was of a frail kind, and much too weak for the purpose.
But all their gay upper works, so toplofty and frail, showed a gleaming white front to the western sun.
Lifting her veil, he saw a frail girl, and while the traffic jam increased she told her story.
Milne is growing old and frail like myself, and I will need to spare her all I can.
A tide that neaped the frail bark of happiness high and dry upon the shores of black despair.
It is really wonderful to see how weatherly such a frail affair can be, and how literally safe in a rough seaway.
Standing beside him, she was just a bit shorter than he, willowy, almost frail.
His body was so frail, so wraithlike, that one almost expected to see through it the magnificent tapestries on the walls.
Shall the potsherd say to his frail fellow, Thou art weak, but I am strong?
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