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"Frail" in a Sentence (19 examples)
My grandmother was gradually becoming forgetful and frail.
He was too frail to play games outdoors.
He's become frail in his old age.
My grandmother is too frail now to get in and out of bed by herself.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Mary had become so frail and gaunt that it seemed she already had one foot in the grave.
The elderly woman was frail but feisty.
The frail old man stubbornly refused to make use of a wheelchair.
Tom was old and frail.
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Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids
She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail.’
Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers. SULLIVAN Why don't you go back with the car... You look about as much like a boy as Mae West. THE GIRL All right, they'll think I'm your frail.
The scythe, the sickle and the flail (or "frail", is it is invariably called) - these should surely be incorporated in the county arms, for on their use much of the prosperity of Essex has always rested until now.
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