How To Use Frail In A Sentence

Women suffering from anorexia are still convinced that their thin, frail bodies are fat and unsightly. Conversely, some people who are a great deal heavier than they should be can persuade themselves that they are 'just right'.
Test cricket can examine bravery, it can expose technical frailties, and it can take players into new territory. Times, Sunday Times
Farther along they spied calami, adversi, frail, and pomposi, which were worse, so they gave up on their search for anything better. Faun & Games
Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
She died after a long period of increasing frailty.

When television replays and closeups became possible, all this human frailty and professional ruthlessness became multiplied many times. Times, Sunday Times
The old ferryman has become so frail that he no longer rows the ferry.
Only then can she appreciate Leopolda's definition of love as ‘brutalizing, a raw force, frail as blossoms, tough as catgut wire’.
I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes.
Its flowers nod on frail stalks that spring straight from a rosette of heart-shaped leaves. Times, Sunday Times
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
It's even more difficult to admit we're human and all our frailties that come along with it.
An elderly woman was standing behind him, frail and stooped, her thinning silver hair as light as goose down. AMAGANSETT
The censorship method… is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
Its characters offer human frailties, weaknesses and moral dilemmas that draw us in.
We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
And then, of course, there was the skill, the accumulated knowledge and ingenuity, behind dyeworks and glassworks, not to mention ships less frail than they looked, since in the future they would ply as far as Britain .... Time Patrolman
The pressures of child-abuse work prevent most health visitors from doing more than minimal surveillance of the frailest old people.
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
I tried to bolt, sidestepping Maxim's frail attempts to stop me and opening the lock as I had the last time.
I gripped slender pillars where the floor looked frail. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
He has a body weak and frail like other men; he has affections and passions like every one born of woman: he lives in a changeful world.
The frail economies and volatile politics of some Pacific countries were also a concern for the leaders.
She gave him a hard spanking; she was powerful for such a frail woman.
Dr.A. H. Thompson: "A.ter several years 'successful use of tin-gold, I commend it for approximal cavities, cervical margins, and frail walls. Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth
She died after a long period of increasing frailty.
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
Dame Thora - also known as the face of Stannah stairlifts - has continued acting despite becoming increasingly frail.
Martin honed his expertise of various banjo styles, such as "three-finger" picking, made famous by Scruggs, and "clawhammer" - also known as "frailing" - a style known for its syncopated rhythms and distinct melodic phrasing that employs the back of the fingernails to strike or strum the strings, and a thumb technique that alternates between the strings. NPR Topics: News
Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
We have very many elderly and frail people that attend day care and some are diabetic. Times, Sunday Times
It was a pity that people were keen on showering encomiums on politicians and heads of religions and communities, whatever the frailties of these individuals.
Yet Norwich's defensive frailties were exposed once again as they imploded under minimal pressure from the opposition. Times, Sunday Times
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
Dr Thomas said her frailty and distortion in her back contributed to pneumonia, causing her death.
That's what public relations propaganda is all about - conning frail, vain humans.
Whatever reality TV means, it's obvious that it is taking over the schedules, ousting frail sitcoms, pricey dramas and once-fashionable docusoaps from their prime-time slots.
Our greatest literary treasure's Talking Heads series captured this nation's idiosyncrasies with his affectionatedissection of human frailty.
He is frail after his illness.
She has accepted her frailties, but also resisted their onward march. Times, Sunday Times
His aqualung scraped the bottom of the punt and he reached up, grabbed the thwart and pulled the frail craft completely over. THE KEYS OF HELL
She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
It is understood that the other two are considered too frail to face proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
There is kind provision made even against our frailties: as we are so constituted that time abundantly abates our sorrows, and begets in us that resignment of temper, which ought to have been produced by a better cause; a due sense of the authority of God, and our state of dependence. Human Nature and Other Sermons
Qat, or catha edulis, has become the national pastime in this poor Arab country of 19 million, but one many experts say is ravaging Yemen's frail economy and sucking up precious water.
It's the foibles and frailties of the characters we love the most.
If WOMAN be the weaker creature, her frailty should be the more readily forgiven. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
Whereas the traditional Jews of the diaspora were frail, the New Jews were to be physically strong.
The home visiting service affords benefit to those who are unable to leave their home, due to frailty, disability, illness, or the effects of undergoing cancer treatments.
A frail Pope John Paul II yesterday added 30 names to the list of his possible successors, installing a diverse collection of cardinals in a consistory some say may be his last.
It was almost as if the barn was it's own little world where it was twilight all the time, and the only light was the frail beams given off by a few candles.
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
The other two injuries expose the frailty of Scotland's reliance on players based in other countries. Times, Sunday Times
My mother is elderly and frail and does not have the stamina to pursue this. Times, Sunday Times
A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg.
Flesh is so frail - except yours, Joe!
Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength. Romance Island
She's still very frail and will need lots of tender loving care.
Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run.
He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word, a man who never spoke ill of another human being and always allowed for human frailty.
She is being lifted bodily by a policeman, easily, for she is slight and frail.
We laypeople tend to use the word imprecisely to allude to fragility or vulnerability in old people, but for physicians and researchers, frailty is a specific medical syndrome with measurable criteria. NYT > Home Page
But now ’twere best thou bestraddle thine ass and make for the market and fetch me a pair of frails, 223 and I will look after the fish till thou return, when I and thou will load it on thine ass’s back. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If you use it then you will likely to be perceived as brave or the opposite of coward or frail.
Q: Your characters are basically nice people caught in wacky scenarios that are mostly due to their own frailties and quirks. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Katie Fforde
She belted out her tune despite fears she would be too frail for the gruelling live schedule. The Sun
Lascivious desire, and no religious devotion, made him draw neere her, and whether under shrift (the onely cloake to compasse carnal affections) or some other as close conference to as pernitious and vile a purpose, I know not: but so farre he prevailed upon her frailety, and such a bargaine passed betweene them, that from the Church, he wonne her to his Chamber, before any person could perceive it. The Decameron
It is about building a politics on a recognition of human frailty and finitude.
The best of these are anthologies that variously name the unnamable truth: we are frail, mortal, and doomed to suffer.
The next day, the wolf's footsteps on the snow showed that he had spent the night in prowling round the hut, and that its frail defence had not excluded him from entering it. A Book of Golden Deeds
The barked torrent of words flowed over me: a cataract of verbiage with unknown phrases sticking up like sharp rocks to confound the frail barque of my self-confidence and perhaps overwhelm it.
The generator's owner, a frail old Korean man, was warming his hands in the buzzing machine's exhaust.
Her soaked hair clung to her pale white face, her clothes adhered to her frail body, and her eyes were shut.
The region of west Inner Mongolia lies in arid, semi-arid, terribly arid climatic zone, and the ecological environment is very frail.
Her cheeks were sunken and hollow, her body almost frail-looking, her hair limp and sticking to her face.
The criminals who prey on the elderly are the lowest of the low - contemptible cowards whose targets are the frail and solitary.
Taking the hatbox and carpetbag, she went back on the trail, a receding frail figure in a burgundy dress. Locust Valley Breakdown
His critique of the mental frailty may be widely shared but letting the players know you think it is a monumental own goal. The Sun
The pressures of child-abuse work prevent most health visitors from doing more than minimal surveillance of the frailest old people.
No one said anything but it was obvious that the whole village was thinking that if those strong healthy people tried and failed what chance could a small frail woman have.
She crouched down, and wrapped her arms around her frail body, covering her face with her hands.
Women suffering from anorexia are still convinced that their thin, frail bodies are fat and unsightly. Conversely, some people who are a great deal heavier than they should be can persuade themselves that they are 'just right'.
The humble frail man, graphic artist, character coy, gentle nature, very ordinary at first glance.
The theory acknowledges human frailty and the fact that most of us relapse. Times, Sunday Times
He excels at writing about sex and sexuality, which he describes with a graceful wonder that encompasses love's frailty and its brutality at once.
The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front. The Silver Horde
Physically he gives Alexei a gentle, frail, almost sickly presence that naturally arouses women's protective instincts.
All five victims were frail with chronic medical conditions who had been admitted to hospital after suffering hip fractures. Times, Sunday Times
The frailty of memory in general is an important theme, but how an epidemic of that proportion gets virtually wiped out of the collective memory is still a mystery.
He spent much of his youth studying anatomy and became obsessed with the frailties of the human body and the ill health he had to deal with. The Sun
And they quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of realisation.
In Delacroix's mind, too, disease, deformity, and physical frailty marked the privileged creator.
It can cause infections, especially among elderly or frail people.
These demographic variables are experienced in addition to high levels of physical dependence, frailty and mental health problems.
Now, it is at this ungodly hour that I intended to book a date for my medical examination (if not for the frailties of technology).
They grow on frail stems that rise directly out of a ring of heart-shaped leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Don't turn your head away, your peculiar modesty would hide what you call frailty and what I call love. Barks and Purrs
There is a vast difference between recognising our frailty which is a fact, and insisting that our nature is made up of nothing else, which is not a fact. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
And it's hard for me to work because repeated dialyses have made my body frail, "he said. YubaNet.com
When the Rifleman discovered the canoe lying against the bank, he sprung from the water, coming upon the frail barken structure with such force that he perceptibly started the bottom. The Riflemen of the Miami
If you have very frail/light skin, you must use sunblock!
She squeezed his arms with what little energy remained in her frail body and went through all the mental exercises her shrink had suggested she put into practice when such episodes came about.
Some of them are natural, the results of vagaries of climate, but others, the majority, are caused by human frailty and cupidity.
This is a reflection of their frailty.
Test cricket can examine bravery, it can expose technical frailties, and it can take players into new territory. Times, Sunday Times
Healthcare providers may need to write ‘exercise prescriptions’ rather than give verbal advice to frail older adults.
However, as I said earlier, these defensive frailties can be easily rectified without reaching for the chequebook.
A team conspicuous for mental strength have become a team conspicuous for mental frailty. Times, Sunday Times
A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as Redgauntlet
Edward detailed his own set of insecurities and human frailties.
After only three years her natural frailty and the rigours of her ascetic devotions killed her.
It is the lust of a mother (not, say, an uncle) that so tortures Shakespeare's Hamlet ( "Frailty, thy name is woman"), a girl's sexual fickleness that takes out the hero in Troilus and Cressida, a queen's love for an ass that brings down the house in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
I felt my life slowly escape my poor, frail and wasted body and I was miserable.
Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
A chesty cough rattled its way from inside the frail woman.
They grow on frail stems that rise directly out of a ring of heart-shaped leaves. Times, Sunday Times
The patient was so incredibly weak and frail when he came in. Times, Sunday Times
Vera also cares for her elderly mother, and supports her frail neighbours with an air of compassion and humanity.
I cannot, however, think that botanical evidence of such a nature is sufficient to warrant a satisfactory reference of these Indian coal-fields to the same epoch as those of England or of Australia; in the first place the outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera, and much more so of fossil fragments: in the second place recent ferns are so widely distributed, that an inspection of the majority affords little clue to the region or locality they come from: and in the third place, considering the wide difference in latitude and longitude of Himalayan Journals — Complete
I think I was betrothed to Cotton Eye Joe, a frail man who smelled of cheese, who would unexpectedly leap up out of his stool now and again as if someone had set fire to it.
On the night of the 6th, a tremendous sea struck her on the stern, stove in all the dead-lights, and washed them into the cabin, lifted the taffrail a foot or more out of its place, carried away the afterpart of the larboard bulwark, shattered the whole of the stern-frame, and washed one of the steersmen away from the wheel. Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
For this reason you believe in rebirth in spite of the degradation and frailty of man. Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 - Presentation Speech
The lower ranges are for unfit or frail persons who are just beginning an exercise program.
Hands quickly reached for taffrails, stanchions, ratlines or some sort of support, and, a moment later, Raven spun the wheel with all her strength to the right until the helm was hard over.
Its citadel is not within frail human flesh, or within the truest and noblest human heart. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln
The final proof that he was human and his name frailty lies in the fact that he was a busybody. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
Many private homes have closed, being unable to meet the standards, disrupting the lives of many elderly and very frail people.
The shirt is old, frail, of a Kleenex softness, faded; all through it the threads look ready to part. THE BINGO PALACE
Moreover, she looked ghastly, looked frail and thin and colourless, had aged shockingly in these months of widowhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
You spend the ungodly early hours of the morning writing about hope for a world beyond empire, beyond greed, beyond humanity's frailty.
Yet being in Davos in between the rubbernecking, schmoozing and speculation, one can't help but muse about the process of coming of age, or - as Wikipedia describes it - Mann's exploration of ''art, culture, politics, human frailty, and love'' that he set here. Man(n)'s Magic Contradictions
The country's administrative capabilities and public health services have remained frail and ineffective.
He noted Kennedy at the taffrail looking back towards whence they had come.
People looking after frail and vulnerable patients need to know what they are doing. Times, Sunday Times
Frail breath, and spirit eterne, beyond thoughts seeing One and All
As it transpired, the team only needed three to win and while their manager must fret over his side's sudden frailty, he again noted that it is a rich source of entertainment for the rest of us.
The Asian financial crisis of the nineties exposed the frailty of the Asian tigers ' economic model.
A chilly, misty wind blows Wednesday as another Bronxian World Series begins; a tough evening for a 79-year-old man in frail health to be out in the weather. Phillies' Lee upstages Steinbrenner's Game 1 visit
She looks so frail, so delicate, and surely she is also what we call afflicted, peculiar. Ringfield A Novel
As he entered old age Philp reacted to increasing disability and frailty with typical resilience and dignity.
The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft.
Her frame was small, her arms looked frail and very white against the raw silk.
This could be let down by the fact that he hasn't had a big hit record for years, and he might be too frail to stage such a comeback.
Shawl pulled tightly about her frail shoulders, blushed by fever, she was standing in front of the widow's walk windows, desperately hoping to catch a glimpse of her husband's returning sails.
Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward. CHAPTER XXXIV
Then there were two or three buckish looking young fellows, among the rest; who were all the time playing at cards on the poop, under the lee of the spanker; or smoking cigars on the taffrail; or sat quizzing the emigrant women with opera-glasses, leveled through the windows of the upper cabin. Redburn. His First Voyage
He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car, followed by the cat basket.
The right side of his face was not entirely immobile, but rigid, as though molded from some obscene plastic, and above it the bare front of his scalp was frail and spotted brown, like a quail's egg.
Despite increasing physical frailty, he continued to write stories.
The only topics were his technical frailties and weaknesses. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke out after two frail and elderly patients were left alone and distressed waiting hours for ambulances to take them home after their wives were barred from travelling with them.
Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged? A Love Story
Reviewers and critics frequently refuse to be honest about Australian movies because they believe this will damage the frail home industry.
On the day Laois were cruelly punished as a rampant Tyrone side tore them apart and cruelly exposed their frailties.
As events would prove, it was a frail umbilical cord from the customer to design and manufacturing.
Most of the characters in the novel exhibit those common human frailties - ignorance and greed.
It was a tough birth, and I was a frail, sickly infant.
But their defensive frailties undid them again and they have now lost five of their last eight. The Sun
I pledge him, therefore, in a puff, -- rather frailish kind of stuff, Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry
The strong-willed novelist struggles to balance the needs of her frail and temperamental lover against those of her high-spirited daughter and her Oedipally challenged son, who hates him for it.
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
We have very many elderly and frail people that attend day care and some are diabetic. Times, Sunday Times
Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.
Pensioners got their promised increase, but only R50-which will allow some to buy shoes or rusks and one to save towards a remote for her television because she is too frail to get up and change channels.
I feared to experimentalize much on my sister, she being young at the time -- and women are always frail of construction -- but Leo was willing and ready to be a victim to science, if necessary. A Romance of Two Worlds
Its flowers nod on frail stalks that spring straight from a rosette of heart-shaped leaves. Times, Sunday Times
I respect the first amendment, however, I believe you are so completely uneducated; your frail argot outwits your inept acumen. Bush Redefines Victory-- And We Don't Want It
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
his mother was doddering and frail
Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
It could not be at the fact that, for all your hollow proclamations of the auteur's commitment to the work alone, this imposture is actually an artifical bolstering of a self-esteem that's actually quite frail and flimsy. How Not to be a Writer
Our ship was nothing but a mass of hides, from the cat-harpins to the waters edge, and from the jib-boom-end to the taffrail. Chapter XXVI. San Francisco-Monterey
All visitors to the area and river users are asked to be especially careful to protect the young ducklings as they are very frail at present and need to be taken care of.
He managed to stay out of the gutter, his contempt of the frailties of his colleagues barely camouflaged.
Nevertheless, her Highness, considering the ease as one of human frailty, hath not caused this wanton one to be scourged with nettles, or otherwise to dree penance; but, as two good brethren of the convent of Lindores, the Fathers Thickskull and The Fair Maid of Perth
She was frail and her childlike appearance made her innocence all the more apparent.
As Niebuhr observed, we "need a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom and power available to us" and "a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of both the enemy's demonry and our vanities. Eliot Spitzer: The Need for Both Passion and Humility in Politics
He said that frail older people with physical and mental health problems were at particular risk of loneliness and isolation at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
My mother, frail in comparison to the hulk of a man she'd married, was sitting on the couch, too, but looked like she was trying to stay as far from him as possible.
During the merciless heat of noon one of the frailer females collapsed, far from any possible shelter.
Markets will continue to wait for war and, in the process, further slow down an already frail economy.
She looked at Susan and saw with a pang how tired and frail she seemed.
As we will see, his works display an acute awareness of human faults and frailties and his writing exhibits a vividness and an elegance that makes it a pleasure to read.
He passed amusedly over the black-eyed, frail-bodied Mrs. Grantly, and halted on the fourth person, a portly, massive-headed man, whose gray temples belied the youthful solidity of his face. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
During the merciless heat of noon one of the frailer females collapsed, far from any possible shelter.
Now the frail pensioner - who has recently undergone a hip replacement operation - says she doesn't know how she will cope until she collects her next pension.
They are not young thugs in hoodies, but frail grey-haired figures. Times, Sunday Times
Many old people become mentally frail.
I accept that he's old and frail; be that as it may, he's still a good politician.
As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
Some of them are frail physically but are as bright as a button in their minds.
The slender lattice was too frail to bear the weight of a nuclear device' and Neil assumed that it was an old radio mast. RUSHING TO PARADISE
The problem with priests is that they are human and suffer the same frailties and imperfections as other humans such as myself.
Conan had a flash of foreboding that, with the help of his arcane arts, this frail-looking man could snap even the Cimmerian's bullneck like a rotten stick. Conan the Wanderer
One day somewhere on a yet unprinted calendar, everyone's bottle of human frailty will be half full.
The reports contradict the official word from the Vatican, where spokesmen have maintained the frail Pope suffered a bout of the flu.
He stepped to the stern and gazed over the taffrail at the lights of Ka Zhir.
Usually the delivered energy is so high—in the 5,000-foot-pound range—that a frail sack of blood and struts like a human being will flip through the air, sometimes as far as 30 feet, limbs askew, and land in a pile of wreckage. Dead Zero

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