Sentence examples for I weakened from inspiring English sources

World War I weakened tsarism.

I weakened, dithered and finally relented.

"It's hard enough against Bayern and I weakened the team," he confessed.

Or the lordly, arrogant Pozzo (Mr. Goodman), his booming authority fading as he finishes a lush pastoral description and says: "I weakened a little toward the end.

"Max Hastings as editor of the Telegraph and the Evening Standard always moaned about the quality of food at Scotland Yard and I think I weakened and I probably had lunch with Max, probably at his club," he says.

The sight of presents I bought two days ago now marked down by 50 per cent (as the high street stretches the concept of "January Sale" yet further) is infuriating and for the few items I weakened about and purchased from Amazon I have received 37 (37!) emails detailing their dispatch and delivery.

The combined experimental and numerical results suggest that the bond line contamination deteriorates the interfacial toughness through two mechanisms: (i) weakening the interfacial bonding strength, and thereby reducing the interfacial toughness, and (ii) shielding the plastic energy dissipation within the adhesive layer, and leading to a reduction in the overall effective bond line toughness.

Re "TV's Tight Grip on Campaigns Is Weakening" (front page, Sept. 5): The voter has spoken!