Sentence examples for a very frail from inspiring English sources

"Talitha was a very frail creature," Gibbs says.

"A very frail gentleman told Joanna he had actually fought with her father in the war," he said.

"A quivering form of a very frail person was stretched out under a blanket on a daybed.

The Baroness Maria von Trapp, by then a very frail old lady, was standing in the wings waiting to be escorted onstage by Robert Preston.

The diplomatic process to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis was always a very frail patient, bustled from one clinic to another around the world, from Istanbul in April to Baghdad in May in the hope of imbuing it with vigour.

Millie is based on two girls, one from Cornwall, one from Sussex, "very wild, lively, fun, freakish girls"; Miles on "a boy I taught a few years ago here in the UK, a disturbed young man"; zany inventor Oli on "a very frail froglike little boy I taught in Cornwall".

Walking to the back of his gallery, he uncovered one of his most striking works, of a very frail-looking woman riding atop a great white horse.

This may have worsened the outcome for an already very frail population.

Agents in New York couldn't be bothered to read the boarding pass of a man that had no business boarding a plane to California, but their counterparts at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport had all the time in the world to ruin the day of a very old, very frail and frightened woman, pulling her aside for 45 minutes of additional screening and forcing her to remove her undergarments.

The latter represent a specific group, involving very frail and disabled elderly persons with chronic somatic diseases or progressive dementia, both often being complicated by co-morbidities [ 6].

But he is very frail, and a painful hip ailment has put him in a wheelchair.