Sample sentences for WEAK-KNEED

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lacking will power or resolution

I felt unaccountably weak-kneed and relieved.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

She swallowed and headed, weak-kneed, for the trees just beyond the quarry.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
"Who is it?" said Madam Hooch, who had sunk, weak-kneed, into a chair.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Dizzy and kinda weak-kneed?
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.
Jack London -- White Fang
Granpa was a little weak-kneed, and held Granma close, helping him to walk, I reckined.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
It is nothing, a woman's shot, or a silly little boy s. A weak-kneed half-wits arrow has no point!
Homer -- The Iliad
The fourth afternoon Red came out of the cabin, pale, weak-kneed and weaving.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
Who's this weak-kneed coward you brought to my place, Brenda?"
James Dashner -- The Death Cure
The whole company was so weak-kneed that the lines were merely spoken, and nothing more.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
By the time Joe left the bank, five minutes past closing time, the last customer to depart, he was weak-kneed with apprehension.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
But he had never got on well with old Parry, that querulous, weak-kneed old man, Clarissa's father, Justin Parry.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
I made an odd chirping sound in the back of my throat and moved in a sort of weak-kneed graceless lurch toward the window.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
He hurried forwards to help Aunt Petunia negotiate a weak-kneed Dudley over the threshold while avoiding stepping in the pool of sick.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Prime Minister sank, weak-kneed, into the nearest chair.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Winks was the master of the upper third, a weak-kneed man with drooping eye-lids, He was too tall for his strength, and his movements were slow and languid.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
In the corridor a few weak-kneed, pasty-faced students were making their way to and from the bathrooms, and a group of silent Helpers worked double-duty to keep the floors mopped.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Courtyard and hall strewn with our friends, too weak-kneed to get up, chapfallen to their collarbones, the way old Iros rolls his head there by the gate as though he were pig-drunk!
Homer -- The Odyssey
At Staatsburg I heard many stories about doojee, which was one of the ninety-nine names of heroin, but I didn't tell them my own weak-kneed story, about how I was scared of needles and drugs.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded: It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work....
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

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