How to Use weaken in a Sentence

weaken

verb

• The dollar has continued to weaken against the euro.
• The beams had been weakened by water damage.
• The disease weakens the immune system.
• The disease causes the immune system to weaken.
• Some are concerned that the increase in taxes will weaken the economy.
• The recent setbacks have not weakened our resolve.
• Lower interest rates have weakened the dollar.
• These kinds of contradictions weaken your argument.
• Plant in the fall before the first frost; planting in the spring weakens them.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 May 2024
• In the past six weeks, the euro has weakened more than 2 percent against the dollar.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
• At the same time, some parts of the Sun's magnetic field weaken, and the field lines open out into space.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the strict law that ensured that success was weakened this year.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Hunger weakens the body’s defenses and opens the door to disease.
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Ozone pollution, meanwhile, can stunt the growth of trees and weaken plants, per the report.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
• But the report warns that inequities could weaken progress.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
• This weakens the shaft on each strand and increases the breakage rate.
  — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
• Rule number one: Never soak pearls as doing so can cause the string to weaken and break.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 28 Feb. 2023
• Too much water can cause the fibers to weaken, become brittle, and break.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
• Punctures weaken the plants, but most of the damage comes from the honeydew falling onto the leaves and fruit.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• The heat dome is expected to weaken and shift west this weekend allowing for the heat to back off.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The rain and gusty winds will persist throughout Saturday and then likely weaken by the evening.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Or, did the 16th president, working late at night, read while sprawled on one side, weakening the stems?
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
• The success of crime and thriller series does not weaken in the French production sector.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022
• But its 80-store network across 10 cities shrank last year as business weakened.
  — Subrat Patnaik, Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2024
• The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• But many of them suggested that growth would weaken as higher rates take hold.
  — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• One reason for this is the muscles in your digestive tract weaken with age.
  — Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 28 Nov. 2024
• The Court weakens the statute of limitations for challenges to agency rules.
  — John Quinn, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• If the wave of Monday afternoon storms bring soaking rains, the severity of the evening storms may weaken.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 29 July 2024
• In addition, hiring has slowed a bit in recent months, raising the risk that the economy could weaken in the coming months.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024