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
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
Oh, how lamentable; how much to be regretted, that a hero, too, can grow feeble and old!
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter
Infernal imagination goes faint; its wildest similes grow feeble and banal before such a consummation of hell.
From The Last Shot by Palmer, Frederick
As he approaches it, however, his limbs grow feeble, his heart beats high, and he lacks courage to go near and knock.
From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William
