fragile
Example Sentences
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“Your mama is more fragile than people think. And since your grandma died, there’s been nobody lookin’ out for her.”
From Literature
The current upturn remains fragile amid geopolitical tensions and an uncertain trade environment, he added.
Consumer confidence dropped in January to the lowest level recorded by The Conference Board’s survey in more than a decade, a warning sign that a relatively steady stretch of economic data may yet prove fragile.
She sits looking out to the sea and strums the oud lightly as if it were fragile.
From Literature
Their unusual preservation has drawn intense interest from scientists, who want to understand how such fragile life forms were recorded so clearly in sandstone.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
