How to Use weak in a Sentence

weak

adjective

• The door's hinge is weak.
• The child was born with weak lungs.
• The batter hit a weak ground ball.
• The illness left her too weak to stand up.
• He has a weak throwing arm.
• She uttered her reply in a weak voice.
• As predators on the top of the food chain, whale sharks feed off the weak and sick.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• At one point, Williams weighed 105 pounds and was too weak to stand.
  — Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
• This happens when the tooth holding the crown in place is too weak to keep the crown in place.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 16 Aug. 2024
• The story was kind of weak — it could have been condensed.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 12 Nov. 2023
• Too weak and out of breath to stand at the dais, Marsden sat in the front row of the audience.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2024
• If the high is weaker, Lee may just recurve out to sea.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• The oil market is so weak that not even a rescue from OPEC+ seemed to help.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• And so what that’s done is it’s made the scholarship around Black men weak.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• But as things stand now, the case for de-extinction is weak.
  — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• Two large fistfuls of hair were stuck in its teeth, yanked loose like weak weeds from dirt.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• This should have been a layup for Trump against a weak candidate.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
• The data showed weak growth and prompted markets to plunge.
  — Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2022
• Plotts don’t have enough nose, and the 30 or so Kibler has owned over the years were weak in homing instinct.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
• Each endpoint can be assessed to sniff out weak points.
  — PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
• When iron levels are low, a person may feel weak or tired.
  — Rachel Meltzer Warren, M.s., Parents, 13 Dec. 2023
• If your squat is weak, stand with a chair behind you and squat down until your butt hits the chair, then stand up.
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Medium Maybe some more clouds for Tuesday as a weak cold front advances from the west.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Editing in the lady bits of the Post is weak and asks little of readers and writers.
  — Brittany Long Olsen, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
• Ones that are old, weak, or poorly installed may buckle under the weight of the ice.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
• Here's a look at the economy's strengths and weak spots ahead of Biden's address to Congress.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• On the other hand, their spending on equipment has been weak.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Apr. 2024
• Sherwin, then 84, was at that point too weak to travel.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The area resident tried to toss the victim a life ring at least three times, but the man in his 50s was too weak to grab on, Slyvia said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
• The next weak point in our system comes with the board certification of those vote counts.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024