How to use fragile in a sentence

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• Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.From the entry damage
• He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.From the entry feeling
• Humans and wildlife must coexist in fragile ecosystems.From the entry coexist
• Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.From the entry edged
• Easy does it! That thing is heavy and fragile.From the entry easy does it
• If you mishandle a fragile package, the contents may break.From the entry mishandle
• As ululations and celebratory gunfire filled the air, the mood was one of fragile joy.2025 October 13, Dina Kraft, Ghada Abdulfattah, “‘Closing a circle of sadness’: Euphoric homecomings in Israel and Gaza”, in The Christian…. From the entry ululation
• Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3. From the entry patchy
• Humans can't do any sort of magic and are physically fragile.2015, Genevieve Jack, Logan: A Knight World Novel, Carpe Luna Publishing, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry humanphobe
• We do this by living out our obligation to protect the Earth’s often fragile and irreplaceable ecosystems.2011, “Human Values and Sustainability”, in Julie Newman, Paul Robbins, editors, Green Ethics and Philosophy: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE…. From the entry envirocentric
• The cleaning lady turns out to be a self-assured, modelly looking Ukrainian who destroys Trish’s fragile pretensions.2009 March 2, Janet Maslin, “Having It All, Including Many Failings”, in New York Times. From the entry modelly
• A single oil field is its gushing but fragile economic base.2008 April 17, “Many of China's 'resource' towns are dying”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May…. From the entry Yumen
• Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 213. From the entry mayfly
• We trod out across fragile alpine heath between poa tussocks and something that smelled of lemon thyme.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 74. From the entry poa
• It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.1986, Joe Baltake, Jack Lemmon: his films and career, page 93. From the entry whifty
• Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5. From the entry fragment
• He appeared, hovering calf-eyed over a fragile and lovely creature whose skirts rustled silkenly as she moved.1939, Edna Ferber, chapter 9, in A Peculiar Treasure, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., page 145. From the entry silkenly
• She was wearing a gown of Madonna blue and looked very fragile and ethereal.1932, Agatha Christie, Peril at End House, page 85. From the entry Madonna blue
• Nevertheless, as she laid him in bed and posseted him, how frail and fragile he looked!1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale. From the entry posset
• Farrell and Berjon make the same point about our online world: the internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian. From the entry monoculture
• The International Campaign for Tibet’s argument is that China’s designation of Hoh Xil would erode, not protect, the area’s fragile ecosystem.2017 July 6, Steven Lee Myers, “China Is Challenged on Bid for Unesco Heritage Status in Tibetan Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Hoh Xil
• Upon Imbolc, the sheaf becomes the infant Goddess Brigid once again, marking the fragile beginnings of the new agricultural cycle.2015, Courtney Weber, “Imbolc: Brigid the Springtime Goddess, the Mother, and the Midwife”, in Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the…. From the entry Imbolc
• It was a humble little plant, fragile, a fledgling shrub with a few sprays of leaves—a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.2014, Lev Grossman, The Magician’s Land (The Magicians Trilogy; 3), New York, N.Y.: Plume, published 2015, →ISBN, page 389. From the entry Charlie Brown Christmas tree
• A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile.2013 June 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Why Centralization Leads to Collapse. From the entry dissent
• Suddenly she’d turned into a fragile thing in their bed, a bone-china cup of a woman, a woman who wouldn’t mend.2013, Alison MacLeod, Unexploded, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry fiercity
• The cranial bones, or cranium (kra′ne-um), enclose and protect the fragile brain and furnish attachment sites for head and neck muscles.2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, “Chapter 7 "The Skeleton"”, in Human Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition, page 200. From the entry cranium
• At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry passage
• A single disaster could destroy the fragile balance.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Economy Codex entry. From the entry hand-to-mouth
• It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces.2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times. From the entry leathery
• Though the causes and interactions remain incompletely understood, study of extinctions does show that life on Earth is fragile.2006, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, The Earth and the Moon, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry supereruption
• A species of remarkable appearance with mature leaf laminae often so profoundly perforate as to resemble a fragile net of tissue.1999, Nguyen Van Dzu, Peter C. Boyce, Kew Bulletin, 54(2):379-393. From the entry perforate
• Some are particularly rich in biodiversity; others support fish nurseries or contain rare or fragile species like barndoor skates and corals.1999 April 9, Karin Jegalian, “FISHERY MANAGEMENT:Plan Would Protect New England Coast”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI. From the entry barndoor skate
• There was a widespread belief that societies in the noncommunist world were exceedingly fragile, susceptible to being destroyed by these demagogues."1996, Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, pages 232–233. From the entry mad dog
• The part is not fragile, does not need benching to remove "stair-stepping" on curved surfaces and does not need post curing.1992, Innovation, volumes 11-12, page 32. From the entry warp
• Lawyers and businessmen made fortunes in land deals and then leveraged profits to build more ticky-tack in fragile areas.1989, Mort Rosenblum, Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America, New York, N.Y.: Morrow, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry salami-slice
• While impervious to heat, isinglass is quite fragile and one must avoid touching these panels when using the doors.1976 September, Don Yule, “Cooking and Eating the 19th Century Way”, in The Old-House Journal, volume IV, number 9, [Brooklyn, N.Y.]…. From the entry isinglass

Meaning of fragile

1. adjective Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.
2. adjective Readily disrupted or destroyed.
3. adjective Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.

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Questions about fragile in a sentence

How do you use fragile in a sentence?

Fragile is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She caught the fragile vase before it could shatter on the floor.”

What is a short sentence with fragile?

“The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.”

What does fragile mean?

Fragile means easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.