grow feeble
Example Sentences
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As one of a handful of younger volunteers, he’s worried about the longevity of the program as he’s seen staff and volunteers grow feeble and unable to help deliver meals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
The heart's action will also be observed to grow feeble in the course of severe cases, and its first sound indistinct, but neither of these changes is as marked in typhoid as in typhus fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Cultivate the reading habit in your younger days that it may be a pleasant occupation when your legs and hands grow feeble with age.
From Dollars and Sense by Hunter, William Crosbie
When the maid would go about in the night with a candle, the light thereof would diminish, grow feeble as if in dampness, and finally go out.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt
We have heard the terrible English 'Hurra' grow feeble, and 'St. Denis' swell like a wind in heaven.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
