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• After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.From the entry hope
• Frail, birdlike wrists and no muscle anywhere on his tiny frame.2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 82. From the entry birdlike
• Also, a larger percentage of ailing outgoers than frail recluses would consider rebates.1996, George P. Moschis, Gerontographics: Life-stage Segmentation for Marketing Strategy Development, page 76. From the entry outgoer
• A poignant complaint, piercing wondersong, registering with her frail untaught soprano trembling tones in the uppermost treble-world.1980, Curtis White, Heretical Songs, page 2. From the entry wondersong
• These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31. From the entry disillusionary
• The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire, laid low their towers and houses frail.1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit. From the entry lay low
• Broadswordsmanship on the stage giving frails in audience thrill of their lives.1930, Variety, Variety (May 1930), Variety Publishing Company, page 50. From the entry broadswordsmanship
• A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115. From the entry wrack
• 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
• My father is confused and very frail, so my sister and my dad’s carer and I handled the sadmin.2022 July 28, George Monbiot, “The ‘sadmin’ after my mother’s death was hard enough – then I encountered Vodafone”, in The Guardian. From the entry sadmin
• The hyperfit athlete and the frail elderly woman are alike in that they are made in God's image.2021, Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?, Crossway, →ISBN. From the entry overachiever
• Such misgivings were expressed to anyone who would listen to the chunterings of an increasingly frail old lady.2013, Gaynor Gabriel, The Long Shadow, page 101. From the entry chuntering
• Audrey and crew even squeezed frail grocer Frank Morgan, the victim, into adding his John Hancock to the parole petition.2005, Dary Matera, John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry John Hancock
• This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles.2005, Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, What philosophers think, page 215. From the entry coughy
• A visibly frail Roosevelt played his usual role of mediator between the pugnacious Churchill and the scowling tyrant Stalin.2000, Edward R. Kantowicz, Coming Apart, Coming Together, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry ring down the curtain
• At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.1999, Jessica Stirling, The Wind from the Hills, St Martin's Press. From the entry girn
• That leading light, whose value-laden vision guided the nation's manumissive march with selfless steps, was frail, firm Jaya Prakash Narain.1990, V[aidyanathapuram] R[ama Iyer] Krishna Iyer, “Humans without Rights”, in Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs, New Delhi: B. R.…. From the entry manumissive
• Even the frail elderly can recover function remarkably.1989, Irwin H. Rosenberg, “Summary comments”, in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 50, number 5, →DOI, pages 1231-1233. From the entry sarcopenia
• By old age she was emaciated, the bones jutting out of her face and her figure frail as a willow branch.1983 December 3, J. R., “Isak Dinesen, The Life of a Storyteller (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 10. From the entry willow
• Suddenly faces go beautifully frail (not pale) – with a delicious new kind of makeup: the sheerest fluff of souffléd color-in-creme!1965, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman vol 61, page 36. From the entry soufflé
• MARY went in to the frail little mother and told her the news through the cotton wool in both ears.1921 July 2, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “Do-As-You-Please Day: A Fourth of July Story”, in The Christian Herald […], volume 44, number 27…. From the entry Fourth of July
• Gingerly the ape-man clambered up the frail rope.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 208. From the entry gingerly
• Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro…. From the entry malnourished
• Mai unwillingly starts her journey, wondering how she, still dependent on her parents, can possibly be a reliable companion to her frail grandmother.2015 August 5, Cathryn M. Mercier, “‘Listen, Slowly,’ by Thanhha Lai”, in The New York Times. From the entry unwillingly
• Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.2012 March 2, Alison Smith-Squire, “The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting…. From the entry pregorexia
• The already frail shoulders under the sportsjacket made one feel protective of him but that feeling disappeared as soon as he began to talk.2012 October 1, Mark Mazower, “Eric Hobsbawm: the history man”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media…. From the entry sportsjacket
• Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!2000, Ciarán Carson, Fishing for Amber, page 143. From the entry eau de nil
• Springing up between the carrot-seed during the first season were the long frail, feathery stalks of the wind-blown eragrostis, a lush sweet grass.1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28. From the entry eragrostis
• Miller, a frail but clever champion, spent most of the night warding off the wild rushes of the game but incompetent Worcesterite.1935 October 23, Hy Hurtwitz, “Miller Outclasses Cormier at Garden”, in The Boston Globe, page 22. From the entry Worcesterite
• Abstract as the sun's insistent care, warmth's illusion burning memory's glass until you step outside into the zero chill — feel this bond become as frail as winter's grass.2014, Catherine Owen, Designated Mourner, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry zero chill
• A little skinny kid had started working behind the bar, and I'd swear he was James Joyce's great grandson: thin face, thick glasses and a frail physique.2009, Jesse Lovelace, Keep to the Left!: Freewheeling Through Ireland, published 2002. From the entry yakky
• For many years I didn't learn to walk, because I was carried everywhere—not by my parents, who had grown frail, but by the most sure-footed of the servants.1997, Emma Donoghue, “The Tale of the Needle”, in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, New York: HarperCollins, page 169. From the entry surefooted
• Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed.1982, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Karen Harvey McClung, Rattlesnakes, Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry hold
• A black witch known as Mother She was going along Front Street toward the store, a frail bent shape in black partlet with cane laboring brokenly through the heat.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 65. From the entry partlet

Meaning of frail

1. adjective Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
2. adjective Weak; infirm.
3. adjective In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.

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Questions about frail in a sentence

How do you use frail in a sentence?

Frail is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.”

What is a short sentence with frail?

“It’s only a frail.”

What does frail mean?

Frail means easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.