How to Use frail in a Sentence

frail

adjective

• In his old age his health became increasingly frail.
• The spirit of resistance may prove too frail, and too exhausted, to rise again to the contest.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
• Friedrich, the youngest of the sons, was too frail to work in the vineyard.
  — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
• His game has looked rusty and his body has looked frail.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• That was in 1972, when Chaplin was eighty-two and frail.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Why would a boy of Devonte's age be so small and frail?
  — Glamour, 8 Jan. 2019
• The 72-year-old inmate's body looks frail, but his mind and voice are sharp and clear.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 4 June 2018
• The few who are still alive are just too old or frail to come to the convention.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
• The 96-year-old's lawyer had argued Groening was too frail to go to prison.
  — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
• Taken to jail in handcuffs, the pop star took this mug shot — and weighed in at a frail 120 lbs.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
• On one side are people who are old and frail but can breathe and eat on their own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• The kid was a full head shorter than him, his arms thin-looking, frail.
  — Aaron Gwyn, Esquire, 24 Apr. 2009
• My mother, frail but with a Pimm’s cocktail in hand, was among them.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 6 July 2018
• He was wrapped in a blue towel, and wads of cotton were stuffed around his frail body to keep him warm.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2016
• But Blackman’s frail frame is a concern for the Seminoles.
  — Safid Deen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• But the thrice-weekly trips have taken a toll on these frail patients.
  — Danica Coto, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Near the end of his life, old and frail, the man asks the gatekeeper a question: Why haven’t more people sought entrance at the door of the law?
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Old and frail people had to walk up very large steps to get into the terminal.
  — AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2017
• Torres, 74, and her husband are too frail to leave their leave their homes for long stretches of time.
  — Ed Lavandera, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
• Sadly, Biden, 81, is more frail, but his vision is strong.
  — Storer H. Rowley, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
• For them, this is reason enough to stay away, leaving the old and frail isolated.
  — Purva Dewoolkar, Quartz India, 20 Nov. 2019
• Lilith was so thin, so frail, with pale, almost translucent skin and a giant mane of blonde hair.
  — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024
• Sentsov has lost about 20 kilograms (44 pounds) and is very frail, according to his lawyer.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• Some were old, frail and caught at home with no help; others young, like Keyiro, home from school on a bad-weather day.
  — Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• Brenda knows seeing her daughter in such a frail state can be hard for her friends.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
• The contrast with the frail President Joe Biden was striking.
  — Ray Dalio, TIME, 22 July 2024
• Magín Díaz has the heart of a lion despite his seemingly frail stature.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2017
• She was wheeled into the Capitol, looking frail and with one eye nearly closed.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• Many young climate activists felt a distinct lack of enthusiasm for an aging candidate whose focus seemed to be elsewhere, and who sounded frail debating Trump.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024