weakly

Example Sentences

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“Ida, since I know you’ve read the book,” she said to me weakly, like it was her last request, “could you please read the first chapter today?”

From Literature

Sugars, which bind more weakly, attach through hydrogen bonding.

From Science Daily

When they do not align, the atom is paramagnetic and only weakly magnetized.

From Science Daily

"The challenge is that dark matter interacts so weakly that we need detectors capable of seeing events that might happen once in a year, or even once in a decade," Mahapatra said.

From Science Daily

“I laughed because she did,” he weakly claims, and there are more giggles.

From Los Angeles Times