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Example sentences for "weakly"

Lexicographically close words:
weaker; weakest; weakfish; weakling; weaklings; weaknes; weakness; weaknesse; weaknesses; weal
  1. Step Hen weakly allowed his hand to open, and the scoutmaster possessed himself of the deadly four-inch stick of explosive.

  2. Seems to me you wanted us all to know that you'd been thrown ten or twenty feet outside the door, when that poor weakly old sinner as you call him, just breezed past you.

  3. Restlessly, but now more weakly weaving, the tiny bit of a man continued as ever to cling to his doll, which he held to his breast with all that remained of his strength.

  4. The stranger on the cracker-box rose weakly and drew near.

  5. His own primitive aversion to the strange, deformed child made him weakly sensitive.

  6. He dropped into a chair, and weakly sobbed.

  7. If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, Captain Hopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it.

  8. And then it was thought that Samuel imagined that his father cared nothing for him, and cared only for the poor weakly son.

  9. Upon a twisted thin little twig, or rather upon the misshapen likeness of one, crouched an unsightly, distorted mass of crude fragments that seemed to be weakly striving to flee in all directions.

  10. He had covered his burning head with his hands, weakly whispering: "Don't!

  11. Albert was gentle in disposition, his health was not good, and he had been a weakly child.

  12. On a city so weakly guarded as Rome, their assault must be almost instantaneously successful.

  13. It was now evident that the whole structure, over a breadth of several yards, had been either weakly and carelessly built, or had at some former period suffered a sudden and violent shock.

  14. Nor do you look like the boy over whose weakly timid nature I have heard Sir Reginald lament," he proceeded, surveying him with a critical eye.

  15. Such physical strength could indeed not have been expected from the weakly looking Pseldonimov.

  16. His weakly and unprepossessing younger daughter had just reached the age of seventeen.

  17. It is quite settled, mamma, I shall go," said poor Elaine, and the selfish mother weakly acquiesced.

  18. All the rest of the party, except Julius Revington, were weakly dominated by Mrs. Stuart.

  19. Comethup laughed and blushed, shifted from one foot to the other, and weakly hazarded the opinion that she had grown.

  20. He stirred a little in her arms and tried weakly to thrust her away.

  21. She was afraid of the committee and hid weakly behind her tears, knowing that they would not attack her there, but the committee was not considering an attack.

  22. She sinks back upon her chair, her form shaking, her face ghastly, her hands falling weakly as they will.

  23. Bobbie staggered away from the mule's heaving sides, with one hand fumbling weakly at the satin bandage, and in his eyes, too, was the look that rarely comes into the eyes of men.

  24. Blanched as an arm of the adolescent moon, it fumbled weakly at his clutching fingers--and was swiftly withdrawn!

  25. These ideas thus voluntarily recollected were succeeded by sensations of pleasure, though his senses were unaffected by the stimuli of visible or audible objects; or so weakly excited by them as not to produce sensation or attention.

  26. Articles of iron and steel, as the raw material is wanting, are only weakly represented.

  27. His frame, too weakly for his ardent soul, Will feel fatigue no more by night or day.

  28. Amongst their number there was poor McKan, Weakly in body but yet firm in mind.

  29. The practice is ruinous to the health of women, is more often than not useless for procuring the object desired, and probably accounts for the fact that many children are weakly and diseased from birth.

  30. I remember over my first baby, although I felt delighted to think I was to be a mother, I had a very nervous fear that my baby would prove weakly because I had suffered for so many years from chronic bronchitis.

  31. The nun Claudia's voice was still raised weakly in pious fashion; she had learnt to ape saintliness all her life, and it was a mere habit with her.

  32. She put this knowledge to effect, and held it like a lash over their weakly spirits.

  33. From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin (a try-weakly family journal).

  34. Hence donnaun, a poor weakly creature, same root with the diminutive.

  35. Oshin [sounded nearly the same as the English word ocean]; a weakly creature who cannot do his fair share of work.

  36. If that fight were magnified a hundred times, a glimpse of it would kill; as it was, myself and the clothing store boy clung weakly to the wall and wept.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weakly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anemic; barely; bloodless; chicken; cowardly; debilitated; decrepit; delicately; drained; drooping; droopy; dull; effete; enervated; exhausted; failing; faint; feeble; flabby; flaccid; flimsy; floppy; fragile; frail; gently; gone; hardly; imbecile; imperfectly; impotent; infirm; invalid; languid; languishing; languorous; lightly; limber; limp; listless; little; low; minimally; minutely; moribund; nerveless; pale; peaked; pianissimo; piano; pooped; powerless; puny; reduced; rubbery; sapless; scarcely; sickly; slack; slightly; soft; softly; spineless; strengthless; unhealthy; unnerved; unsound; unstrung; unsubstantial; unwell; valetudinarian; weak; weakened; weakling; weakly