frailness
Example Sentences
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The telescoping nature of collapse — from the frailness of the physical body to the tragedy of the national soul — lends these pages a loss that is both painfully intimate and disconsolately vast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017
I much more enjoy the strangeness and the frailness of real people’s lives and then figuring out a way to make that into a story.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017
Reporters at the courtroom remarked on Sandusky’s seeming frailness.
From Time ● Oct. 9, 2012
Yet Mrs. Frisby thought that this had been the beginning of his frailness.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Rarely has he ever spoken this way, to a great assemblage of us, and I am struck both by the power of his voice and the frailness of his person.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
