How to Use frail in a Sentence

frail

adjective
  • In his old age his health became increasingly frail.
  • Did his singing voice seem a bit frail at times?
    — Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 11 May 2025
  • Friedrich, the youngest of the sons, was too frail to work in the vineyard.
    — Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • On one side are people who are old and frail but can breathe and eat on their own.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The kid was a full head shorter than him, his arms thin-looking, frail.
    — Aaron Gwyn, Esquire, 24 Apr. 2009
  • The few who are still alive are just too old or frail to come to the convention.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Very old or frail tapestries may be best framed to protect them.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2025
  • My brother was quite frail, so his death was not a total surprise.
    — Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Their frail patients are struggling.
    — Paula Span, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But the thrice-weekly trips have taken a toll on these frail patients.
    — Danica Coto, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Spring came, and my father got sicker and sicker, more and more frail.
    — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Brenda knows seeing her daughter in such a frail state can be hard for her friends.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 16 Feb. 2017
  • My mother, frail but with a Pimm’s cocktail in hand, was among them.
    — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Some people are screaming at the air, their pants falling off their frail frames.
    — Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The 72-year-old inmate's body looks frail, but his mind and voice are sharp and clear.
    — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 4 June 2018
  • He was wrapped in a blue towel, and wads of cotton were stuffed around his frail body to keep him warm.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2016
  • Old and frail people had to walk up very large steps to get into the terminal.
    — AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Lilith was so thin, so frail, with pale, almost translucent skin and a giant mane of blonde hair.
    — Carole V. Bell, NPR, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Tyburski noted that even a patient who is frail or needs a cane may walk for miles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Check on older, sick, or frail people who may need help responding to the heat.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • For them, this is reason enough to stay away, leaving the old and frail isolated.
    — Purva Dewoolkar, Quartz India, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The 96-year-old's lawyer had argued Groening was too frail to go to prison.
    — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • That can literally save the life of a frail elder like the dad in this story.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Rafael’s mother is too frail to lift her 53-pound granddaughter.
    — Jocelyn Wiener, Kaiser Health News, 22 May 2017
  • The crowd stood en masse and cheered the frail 88-year-old composer seated on the first tier.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2025
  • Perhaps one shudders to bring a frail thing into the reaches of such shadows.
    — Mara Van Der Lugt, TIME, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Taken to jail in handcuffs, the pop star took this mug shot — and weighed in at a frail 120 lbs.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The outdoors is no place for a feline, especially one this small and frail.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Magín Díaz has the heart of a lion despite his seemingly frail stature.
    — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2017
  • And what happened to the already frail Jim after Rick pushed over that chair?
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 Mar. 2025

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