How to Use weakling in a Sentence

weakling

noun

• In nature, a lame duck is a weakling, a bird that can’t keep up with the flock and is easy pickings for predators.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2020
• The next weakling Minnesota will face is Maryland, a team that has lost four of five and slid into the abyss.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2019
• Experts say the storm may be slow-moving but is hardly a weakling.
  — Daniel Cusick, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2020
• But one thing is certain: The U.S. central bank has become a weakling.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• The Hawkeyes continued to use that combo to beat up on the conference’s weaklings.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• Europe increasingly looks like a 120-pound weakling that can’t keep the lights on.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• Against a backdrop of a slowing growth elsewhere, Greece is far from the weakling of Europe that was on the brink of bankruptcy just a few years ago.
  — Stelios Bouras, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2020
• The script, alas, is a bit of a 98-pound weakling, but given the escapist demands probably sufficient to get the job done.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 July 2022
• Neither of these big guys is a weakling opponent imported from out of town to make the local kid look good.
  — Don Steinberg, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Yeah, that’s not going to happen, but the Warriors have at least a chance of improving their 90-pound-weakling image.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2021
• The first two were over the weakling Giants and Redskins, but manhandling the contending Raiders should make folks take notice.
  — Barry Wilner, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Australia is here because of that and regarded as a tournament weakling, though the team earned some credit in a courageous 2-1 defeat to France.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018
• At first, Daryl finds himself on the wrong side of that privileged weakling weasel, otherwise known as Sebastian, son of Pamela Milton, who runs this town.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
• Coming off an historically bad year and a series of miserable starts, the Twins, for one day at least, morphed from 98-pound weaklings to heroes of the beach.
  — Tom Powers, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2017
• Such incidents have given it a reputation as the tech weakling of Japan’s megabanks.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2019
• Paul Hebron as father James, ruined by success, terrified of poverty, is both a brilliant man and a weakling.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Sitting in the back of the classroom full of kids a quarter his age, Jay kvetches about how Odysseus is a lying adulterer, Telemachus an obedient weakling, and Homer simply wrong about love, war and justice.
  — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
• In his first film role, Bathily (whose father grew up in the eponymous housing complex) was an unlikely choice; the part of Youri would seem to require a nerdy, 98-pound weakling, staring passively at the stars.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• In the aftermath of the killing, Mr. Chun instigated a coup against Park’s weakling successor and began a reign of absolute power and terror.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• My little weakling account (@rjallain) just has over 500 followers (notice no K).
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 17 May 2011
• In this view, Facebook is a naive weakling afraid to take any enforcement action on its platform; Apple, on the other hand, is the practical one who never pretended to embrace free speech in the first place.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
• In trying to repeat the trick, Trump is already portraying some elected Democrats as extremist and anti-American—and the rest as weaklings who are in hock to the extremist anti-Americans.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2019
• By all accounts, Dorian started out as a hurricane weakling.
  — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
• Ostensibly about an emerging health crisis, the show is really the cable news equivalent of that comic book advertisement for Charles Atlas where the 98-lb weakling gets sand kicked in his face.
  — Timothy Caulfield, Men's Health, 21 Nov. 2022
• Criticizing Biden for not establishing a no-fly zone is a more specific charge than simply calling him a weakling—a tangible thing that the president could be doing in Ukraine but isn’t.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2022
• And the surrender or war over Korea that may follow will be but one part, however distressing or bloody, of the price this country will pay for a government administered by moral weaklings and lickspittles.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2017
• On the other side, Ukraine is a relative weakling in cyberspace that has become the first country to fight back against an invader by publicly calling up an international army of vigilante hackers.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• The following month, after suffering complications from surgery, the man who’d plucked Chrysler from liquidation, merged it with Fiat and guided both weaklings to profitability, died at age 66.
  — Sam Walker, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2018
• Were Harry and Meghan millennial weaklings retreating into self-care and self-pity, unwilling to withstand the scrutiny of their public life in exchange for the material luxury of their private one?
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
• At other times, Trump has contradicted his own administration’s policy, expressing a willingness to talk with Maduro and dismissing Guaidó as a weakling.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024