English example sentences with "frail"

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.

She was mousy and frail, but she ran the office with an iron fist.

The partitions between the cells of the convicts, instead of being of thick oak, as is usual in convict-ships, were quite thin and frail.

"I interviewed a lot of people there, including a woman, who, at that time, was the oldest living 'nu shu' writer. She was 96-years-old when I met her, very tiny, very frail," she said. "Her skin was like tissue paper. She had bound feet."

Don't embrace me in such a manner. I'm so frail!

Tom is frail.

The old man is frail.

Tom is old and frail.

He's frail.

Yanni was a tiny frail guy.

He's as frail as a baby goat.

The mind craves progress, yet the flesh grows frail and holds back.

He's very frail.

Himmler had a frail physique.

Meanwhile, physicians who work in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, continue giving testimony about the travails of people who desperately want help. They talk about sickly, frail people walking for miles through war zones, through crocodile-infested waters, through monsoons, to clinics where there may or may not be the treatment they need.

Whoever moves without a head is a tail; Their movement's like the scorpion's, frail.