How to Use feeble in a Sentence

feeble

adjective
  • We heard a feeble cry for help.
  • She's still feeble from her long illness.
  • He made a feeble attempt to explain his behavior.
  • He offered a feeble excuse for his behavior.
  • Business is suffering because of the feeble economy.
  • The feeble light from the fire wasn’t much help.
    — Bill Shaber, Outdoor Life, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty feeble.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Walking the red carpet dressed in black is a feeble form of protest.
    — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Griffin dodged the question with a feeble joke.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The gags are both belabored and feeble.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 June 2026
  • My poor mother has spent too many years putting up with feeble hugs from the arms of her deadbeat son.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Add that to the list of dishes whose connection to their own name is feeble at best.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And honestly, what could be more feeble?
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The Wildcats’ feeble offense had no chance to close that gap.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Breath fogs the air, ice slicks the roads, and the sun seems a distant, feeble glow in the winter sky.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • They were shoved into lines, and those deemed too old, too young or too feeble were murdered the same day.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2024
  • While the bats themselves are feeble foes, the rabies virus is a brutal beast.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • When approached, such a goose might have made a feeble attempt to escape.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone.
    — Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The keeper of the deck log reached the bow at last and let out five feeble honks, surely too late to do any good.
    — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
  • In this scheme, free will was feeble, and sin could be blamed on dark forces inhabiting the body.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Prove to me that your first two wins weren’t mirages, mere strokes of luck against feeble opponents.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2017
  • My boyfriend walked me to work the next day, a sweet but feeble attempt to shield me from the protestors.
    — Steph Herold, Marie Claire, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The feeble sun slid beneath the mountains as Mum called us in for supper.
    — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Some crashed to the pavement through firefighters’ feeble nets.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • Given their feeble effort on Monday, that might have been a good sign.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
  • The stalwarts of yore are dismissed as old media, a feeble rear guard that leads from behind.
    — Paul Blanchard, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Given that Biden is truly in feeble shape, this isn’t a strong showing.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
  • As the nurse helped him out of the wheelchair, my family saw for the first time how feeble his body had become.
    — Melinda Butler Mayo, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2022
  • Scratches above the dead body reach upward, marks that read as feeble attempts to cling to some semblance of life.
    — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

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