Sentence examples for weakling in from inspiring English sources

A woman might be powerful in one context (say, her home) and a weakling in another (her place of employment).

Qatar, once a weakling in the Gulf, has grown hugely in wealth and clout, partly thanks to the soft power of its satellite arm.

During his conversation with the undercover agent, captured on tape four months ago, he said he had become a weakling in Miami Beach, "a big sucker".

Not only has the Federation Council become the weakling in the legislative system, but also some governors have all but become autocrats as the Kremlin's authority ebbed in the 1990's.

After calling Barack Obama a "feckless weakling" in the last debate, Christie had more choice words for the president, calling him a "petulant child" and saying the GOP was coming to "kick your rear end out of the White House".

A thin man in an oversized three-piece suit, his angular, bespectacled features bore more resemblance to that geeky weakling in the Mr Muscle adverts than a master seducer capable of making a string of intelligent, attractive and rich women swoon at his charm and prostrate themselves on his crooked mercy.

Cooper started DC's (also referred to as The Weaklings) in 2006, after hackers broke his four-year-old "Dennis Cooper's Blog".

If a big man's joints turn to dust as a result of repetitive collisions, if diabetes and heart disease loom... well, consequences are for weaklings in the N.F.L.

Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the powerful Iranian-backed Badr Brigade militia, told journalists on Sunday: "Some of the weaklings in the army... say we need the Americans, while we say we do not need the Americans".

We're the weaklings in the schoolyard and they are the fucking bullies.

That should calm rebels in her centre-right coalition angry at successive bailouts of euro zone weaklings in which Berlin guarantees the biggest share.