frail

Example Sentences

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The second group includes medically frail people who are older and already in poor health from conditions such as chronic kidney disease and congestive heart failure.

From Washington Post

And she added the NHS was facing a "perfect storm" of rising demand, a frailer population post Covid and workforce shortages and strikes.

From BBC

Assuming a more pedestrian, scaled-down, appropriate-for-the-setting look, by contrast, can communicate seriousness — but can also remind jurors and other observers, perhaps inconveniently, that megacelebrities are, after all, just frail and fallible humans like everyone else.

From Washington Post

People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.

From Washington Post

The teenager stood in a corner, fanning his frail father with a piece of cardboard.

From New York Times