Sentence examples for frail like from inspiring English sources

She felt small and frail, like a little bird.

She was a bit frail, like an actress.

One group were sex offenders and people who were frail, like Mr. Geoghan, Mr. Costanza said.

In a snapshot taken aboard a ship in San Francisco, he looks, in Navy whites, very young and frail, like a bird that has left the nest too soon.

This may significantly benefit the quality of life for the elderly and frail (like those in the CLEAR study group) as they tend to spend most of their day participating in low-energy activities.

His meeting at the Vatican with the 79-year-old pope, whose own health is precarious, could well be a final one for the two frail, like-minded Roman Catholic leaders.

"She is as fragile as a bird, has a frail, waif-like innocence, and dances with a fey sense of doom," he continued.

Even though they are not on-camera talent, they feel that to fit in this industry and in this town, you have to have a frail, bird-like physique.

He was a concentrate of contradictions: an indefatigable workhorse who had to be yanked from bed in the mornings, a man-about-town who lived with his mother, an expensively tailored dandy forever in need of a shave, a soul-baring lyricist ("Why is my heart so frail, / Like a ship without a sail?") who concealed his profoundest emotions even from intimate friends.

One lesson we can learn from frail prisoners like Aman and Carla is that life is a one-way street.

THE sight of a frail man like George Buchanan, 73, seated on his small bed is unsettling and claustrophobic, even with the door open.