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.
  • The statement was strong, the response at the event was weak.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Reneé Rapp has learned the hard way that falling in love isn’t for the weak.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022
  • In the 1950s they were portrayed as weak and subservient to men.
    Francine Russo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Many also point out that the scent is perfect: Not too strong, and not too weak.
    Elizabeth Berry and Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 13 June 2022
  • This should have been a layup for Trump against a weak candidate.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Of Vegas’ last eight games, six were at home and all eight were against some of the league’s weakest teams.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But Baumann got Riley Bertram, hitting sixth, to hit a weak grounder back to the mound for the third out.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
  • The data showed weak growth and prompted markets to plunge.
    Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Her 18-month-old daughter Malaika was too sick to eat, too weak to cry.
    Matt Gutman, ABC News, 20 Sep. 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
  • The bottle's outer coating isn't as tough as the matte powder coating on others, and the aluminum felt weak.
    Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Many offensive cyber firms set up shop in countries with weak regulations, providing hacking tools and services to buyers worldwide.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025

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