Sentence examples for make feeble from inspiring English sources

Now it is the euro's turn to hold its head high and the dollar's to make feeble excuses; the sudden crisis even warranted explanatory graphics and grave-looking commentators on American network news.Gosh.

In Portuguese Brazil, where the expulsion edict had been issued eight years earlier and where they had been the only educators, the royal chancellor was forced to make feeble attempts toward organizing a secular education.

In any case, an account of physics based on the impossibility of walking on water, or a section in chemistry that turns on the reactions that transform it into an alcoholic beverage would make feeble reading indeed.

UK distributors often make feeble efforts with films featuring black American casts, but Universal may be encouraged by the growing popularity of Hart to swing for the fences with Ride Along, which has so far grossed $123m in the US. 1.

Mr Miliband told the BBC: "I think it is pretty disreputable that David Cameron went into the 2010 election saying that these debates were the most important thing that we could possibly have and people shouldn't make feeble excuses to get out of them, and he is doing precisely that.

A sluggish ground cricket makes feeble attempts to overcome a leaf.

The more canny Betty (an amusingly wry Sarah Sokolovic) makes feeble attempts at rebellion and can hardly disguise her relief when her father's plans begin to sour.

The street lamps made feeble efforts to light the benighted wanderer home, and in too many instances flickered out in utter darkness.

For example (or e.g., as Seligman would say), when I wrote "Who will President Bush nominate to replace Louis Freeh?" the dwindling tribe of whomniks made feeble accusative bleats.

One of the strings broke in the middle of a song, and he had to sit cross-legged onstage and change it himself, while his band mates played "The Girl from Ipanema" and made feeble attempts at humor.

The tactic here is basically pornographic — arouse the viewer with image upon image of what lies just beyond her reach — and the film makes feeble attempts to rein it in.