weak-kneed

How To Use weak-kneed In A Sentence

• Stay home and punish the weak-kneed, sell-out Democrats? Michael Moore: A Boot to the Head
• To put this another way, the instinctive worry about such things as patenting the gene pool or privatizing the air does not come solely from nostalgia or a weak-kneed fear of change.
• She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
• Yer too weak-kneed, an 'hain't got as much backbone as an angle worm.' The Fourth Watch
• But of course, we all know that this feeble rubbish is only a weak-kneed attempt to be amusing.
• Indeed, he would have looked like a weak-kneed fence straddler. Latin America
• Curiously weak-kneed and breathless, I climb onto the trackside and check my time: 74.16 seconds.
• She stood dazed and weak-kneed beside the coffin.
• Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old.
• The adrenaline that had kept her so firmly in control inside the opera box was starting to bleed away, leaving her weak-kneed and worn out. THE LAST TEMPTATION