Sentence examples for like a feeble from inspiring English sources

That seemed like a feeble reason.

The prospect of making gains from an investment called a zero may sound like a feeble joke.

I attempted another strut as I exited the car, but this one felt more like a feeble rendition of the chicken dance.

"Hey everybody, listen up," Christopher called out, a line that can sound like a feeble prayer or an inviting command, depending on who delivers it.

Elsewhere in the letter, Paterson writes that the prime minister failed to prepare for a no-deal Brexit, tried to bounce her ministers into supporting her and approached negotiations like a "feeble and unworthy" supplicant.

The club members volunteered as festival stewards and one of them was ill, so I took his identity and reported for work on the Friday, despite looking like a feeble excuse for a rugby player.

Alternately, defend a team you like despite a feeble record.

It felt like such a feeble thing to do.

He speaks of freedom and the difficult decisions it requires: "The wolf is entitled to a sheep/Much like a tyrant to a feeble man./But to stomp the neck of tyranny/To lead it to the righteous knowledge/ That is man's most sacred duty".

Those words "failure" and "badly wrong" will sound like a weak and feeble form of condemnation to the many who feel the Iraq war should be condemned as a crime, a moral outrage, a terrible deception or as simply unforgivable.

One of my favourite lines belonged to Sandy, when he was congratulating Roper on the decoy run at the Syrian border: "You are a very bad man!" It was said like a joke, accompanied by a feeble high five – one public school boy to another, deploying a tone of camp distance to make their mundane exploits seem more exciting.