Sentence examples for made a feeble from inspiring English sources

She made a feeble attempt to cut her wrists.

I made a feeble case for a "U" (Universal) rating, given the movie had no sexual content.

When this failed to elicit the response he was looking for, he made a feeble attempt at blackmail.

(His popularity extends elsewhere, too: In 2006, the Libertarian party made a feeble effort to seize Souter's New Hampshire home).

In an e-mail from prison, Mr. Madoff confirmed that he and his wife "made a feeble attempt" at suicide "while in a severe state of depression.

Edinburgh, the city of international culture, the city whose economic growth outstrips that even of London, has taken none and has made a feeble promise to accommodate 100.

The game makes a feeble attempt to simulate the temptations and lifestyles of a real athlete.

The movie makes a feeble effort to show that women were welcome in the movement.

Leek and asparagus soup makes a feeble impression, and marinated Icelandic herring had an unpleasantly mushy texture.

And yet these two thinly sketched lovers, and their attempts to outwit Kitri's father, Lorenzo, and her wealthy suitor, Gamache, make a feeble narrative engine.

I find myself standing and making a feeble gesture toward comforting her, but I'd rather be running out the door.