Sample Sentences for
frail
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  • His frail body trembled terribly as he climbed the stone wall.†  (source)
  • But Grant was impressed with the frail appearance of the animals.†  (source)
  • I guess it's to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom's.†  (source)
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  • The author of that novel was so thin, so frail, so comparatively optimistic!†  (source)
  • She dug her frail hands beneath the blanket, burying herself up to her chin.†  (source)
  • "It's sho' a shame, all right," said T.J.'s father, a frail, sickly man with a hacking cough.†  (source)
  • Delicate and frail, with big brown eyes, long braids, and skinny legs, she looked like a young deer.†  (source)
  • He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.†  (source)
  • He looks very frail; his skin is paper white and thin.†  (source)
  • I was still too frail and too malnourished to have gone through puberty.†  (source)
  • DRACO: We were capable of having children but Astoria was frail.†  (source)
  • Or my mother, who is so frail, she can bare!†  (source)
  • She was gaunt, sunken, but Dan saw shadows of a pretty woman gone old and frail.†  (source)
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