Sentence examples for a tiny fragile from inspiring English sources

Underneath, she's broken; a tiny, fragile person.

A tiny, fragile young woman of 17, her vulnerability magnified by her preference for running barefoot, her time of 15min 1.95shatteredered the world record, held by America's Mary Decker, by more than six seconds.

SALT LAKE CITY It is a tiny, fragile thing: a squashed skull barely a centimeter in length; a sinuous curving body about two fingers long; four delicate limbs with grasping hands.

In the middle of it all is a tiny, fragile baby, born too soon.

"It refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, "hanging in the void", shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere.

It is an incongruously James Bondian exit for such a tiny, fragile-looking woman.

A tiny, fragile-looking woman who favored big jewelry, fishnet stockings and minidresses till she was well into her 80s, she was a regular guest at society soirees and appeared often on television.

Marina Silva of the Green Party, who sits at around 10% in the polls, is a tiny, fragile-seeming woman, with the scraped-back hair and poise of an ex-ballet dancer.

I've got a couple of poor but respectable ones: I once held a door open for John Cleese (he said "Thank you" rather sternly) and I once witnessed the late Kenneth Williams buying a newspaper (he looked tiny, fragile and unhappy).

For my daughter's second birthday, we bought a child-sized couch to provide a safe place for her our tiny, fragile girl to climb without the risk of tumbling from the regular couch to the floor.

Besides, I knew that Beebe -- who began his career in 1899 as curator of ornithology at the newborn Bronx Zoo, went on to found the field of tropical ecology, then became famous in the 1930's by descending more than half a mile below the surface of the ocean in the tiny, fragile bathysphere -- had lived a civilized three-martini life wherever he had worked.