Sentence examples for were frail from inspiring English sources
adjective
Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
She added: "These were frail and elderly people.
One group were sex offenders and people who were frail, like Mr. Geoghan, Mr. Costanza said.
They were frail, but the authorities do not interpret this as a mercy killing.
"Her legs were frail and she didn't have the stamina to walk very far; it became too painful for her," said Stuart.
(The Tachistes, such as Nicolas de Staël and Jean Fautrier, who invested small-scale abstraction with quaking sensitivity, were frail counterparts of the Abstract Expressionists).
He was as eager as a child, smiling as he held the mesh open, and she noticed that his wrists were frail and thin and scarred.
Just 3percentt of the people aged 65 to 69 were frail, but 20 to 30percentt of those aged 80 or older were considered so.
"Vassar stood out because the women here would not accept the general view that women were frail and could not endure hard work.
If they inserted questions about frailty in the medical exam, they could learn how many were frail at the study's start and how many developed the disease in the ensuing decade.
But they suspect that it has something to do with the close bond between these young adults and their parents, who have fretted over them since they were frail, vulnerable infants.
"AARP is in an interesting paradox because they have built a lot of their character and political clout based on the proposition that older adults were frail and needed protection because they were powerless," said Mr. Dychtwald, of Age Wave.
