FRAIL in a Sentence

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55 example sentences for FRAIL, such as:

1. His frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
2. She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
3. She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
4. Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
5. She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frail
 a.  physically weak; easily broken
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  She's so frail and weak and you're so strong, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  He told me when they moved on that the girls would recover but your mother-- She was so frail, he said--too frail to stand it all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  With a thrill she looked up at the frail swaying girl for whom she had never had any feelings but of dislike and contempt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  She looked, and was, frail but she was willing, obedient and obliging.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  No one could be more dominating than stout Mrs. Merriwether, more imperious than frail Mrs. Elsing, more artful in securing her own ends than the silver-haired sweet-voiced Mrs. Whiting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  Ashley sat on Ellen's little writing chair, his long body dwarfing the frail bit of furniture while Scarlett offered him a half- interest in the mill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  But Nettie Struther's frail envelope was now alive with hope and energy: whatever fate the future reserved for her, she would not be cast into the refuse-heap without a struggle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
12  IT was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the Johnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  The daring black chemise of frail chiffon and lace was a hussy at which the deep-bosomed bed stiffened in disgust, and she hurled it into a bureau drawer, hid it beneath a sensible linen blouse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  She went into the house, a frail small woman, still winsome but hopeless of eye as she staggered with the weight of the drowsy boy in her arms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
Example Sentence:
1  Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
2  She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
3  His frail hands could hardly hold a cup.
4  He was 49 years old and in frail health, suffering from diabetes.
5  Looking as frail as eggshells, she deflected questions with a hint of asperity, as any woman of her upbringing might have done.