Sentence examples for frail tree from inspiring English sources

A playing card would be too much, like a too-heavy Christmas ornament on a frail tree branch.

For five weeks, Noah had been tending a new, frail tree in front of their two-story apartment building.

This is an embarrassing subject.Women are certainly physically inferior to men and if this were not the case the whole history of the world would be different.... Any woman who has ever had her wrist twisted by a man recognizes a fact of nature as humbling as a cyclone to a frail tree branch.

Bark beetles are notoriously fond of frail trees, burrowing destructive paths into limbs and trunks to mate and lay eggs.

When her last chance of a future slips through her fingers, she stands and shivers like a frail cherry tree about to be snapped in two and blown away by the winds of change.

All these words, letters, trees, mountains, frail flowers and forgotten roads were part of a single text, and shared a common texture.

IT is pitch-black backstage at Playhouse 91, the cocoonish Upper East Side theater where the South African actress Pamela C. Gien nightly makes like a medium and channels the 28-character cast of her one-woman show, "The Syringa Tree," through her frail frame before an increasingly appalled, but enthralled, audience.

Or have you become like an old, dried up tree: rigid, brittle, frail, and decaying?

Most of those trees had few leaves, frail generic things propped up with wooden supports.

You notice the plant matter — the bright green of grape leaves, the stout, grafted trunks of the oldest nut trees, the saplings that look impossibly frail under the blunt sun.

His pupil Hermesianax wrote that a statue of him was erected under a plane tree by the people of Cos, depicting him as "frail with all the glosses".