feebly

How To Use feebly In A Sentence

• I stopped pacing and started running feebly, my heart now racing in fear, the sounds in the woods growing incredibly loud and frightening.
• ‘It's nothing I can't handle,’ she croaked feebly and Randy chuckled at the grating sound her voice made.
• I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art or science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability. Erewhon
• So for days I ate turkey, feebly rationalizing that I wouldn't add the evil of waste to the evil of the murder of the poor birds, who by then were beyond pain.
• But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin. Dubliners
• She glimpsed her mother lying feebly on a divan with a wrinkled, pallid face.
• In the evening, while I sagged feebly on a kitchen chair, she breaded cutlets, and sliced tomato and cucumber on to a glass dish. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• Ignoring the water, it came straight to Sandy, uttered a harsh whine, catching at the leather tassel on the cowman's worn leather chaparejos, tugging feebly. Rimrock Trail
• Then followed an amoeboid and uncertain form, with an increased intensity of action which lasted a few moments, when lassitude supervened, then perfect stillness of the body, which is now globular in form, while the flagellum feebly lashed, and then fell upon and fused with the substance of the sarcode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
• His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical, and the additions which he makes are of little value. Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope