Sentence examples for frail on from inspiring English sources

At 37, Tamia is by no means old, but even in her younger years, she stood apart as a singer with purpose and fervor, and one with an appealingly flexible voice: booming on "Stranger in My House," frail on "Officially Missing You".

"He was very frail on the set, but mentally he was very alive," Mr. Colgan remembered.

By and large songs of Robyn's that feel frail on record were here steroidal, a triumph of arrangement and vigor.

A lot of people have misinterpreted that, thinking that he's going to sound old and frail on this record, but for that song he wanted to sound vulnerable.

On Sunday night, the massive operation housed 1,041 men, women and children on triple bunks in overflow dormitories, in small rooms for desperate families, on so-called medical beds for the sickest and most frail, on yoga mats on the floor.

Beauman's portraits of the unclubbable outsider Carter, obsessed with finding the tomb that he knows in his bones could be inches away from where he is digging, and Lord Carnarvon, ailing and frail, on the verge of withdrawing funds from Carter after many fruitless years of digging, are also vivid and illuminating.

Her protest has gone on for so long, she says, that all her fellow activists have either died or are too frail to carry on.

But the pope, a frail 85, stayed on for almost eight years, Mr. Vian said.

The questions were focused on frail elderly people, on how conditions are to be provided for different measures of importance and, not least, how it is ensured that these measures are being followed.

The other ending they teased us with – one last visit from the Doctor to lovely, old, frail Clara on her deathbed – would have worked perfectly fine, too, but would also have been quite sad.

The rules for depicting the frail elderly on television are fairly clear: it must be done with a gauzy somberness.