Sentence examples for frail a from inspiring English sources

Too frail a bark to bear such weighty cargo, the play slowly capsizes and sinks.

Older people are seen as frail, a burden or a drain on society's resources.

"He was pale and slender, filled with an unusual restlessness, always seemingly frail, a grumbler, melancholy and solitary," the art historian Anne-Katrin Rossberg writes in the catalogue.

Even then, of course, Cunningham was frail – a tiny creature curled up in a wheelchair but still with that sense of erectness and poise that makes dancers unmistakeable.

Most elderly and frail; a small percentage are younger people who have conditions like multiple sclerosis or traumatic brain injury or have suffered severe accidents.

Stritch's voice was brassy enough to blare through the mezzanine, but often quiet and frail — a delicate glottal rasp in the back of the throat, the sound that comes right before tears.

He was painfully frail, an oxygen tank by his side, cancer attacking his spine and lungs.

In particular, targeting the frail, an interdisciplinary team structure with clinical control of care, and long-term follow-up, tend to be associated with effective programs.

"He was very thin, a frail guy, a wonderful guy, he got ambushed.

He is a man of seventy-six, with a white beard, a frail frame, and a thinnish voice.

A frail pensioner in a wheelchair casting a vote was billed as a triumph for Algeria today.