Wondering how to use Feeble in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as weak or nerveless.
Feeble meaning
- Deficient in physical strength.
- Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
Synonyms of Feeble
Using Feeble
- The main meaning on this page is: Deficient in physical strength. | Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
- Useful related words include: weak, nerveless, frail, weakly.
- In the example corpus, feeble often appears in combinations such as: feeble and, and feeble, too feeble.
Context around Feeble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Feeble
- In this selection, "feeble" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, too, pursue, usual, warning, little and entirely stand out and add context to how "feeble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rather feeble entirely busted and and too feeble to stand. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "feeble" sits close to words such as abnormally, acrobatic and adm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with feeble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The excuse of efficiency is a feeble rationale. (8 words)
Honestly, my feeble little heart couldn't take it. (9 words)
She seemed too feeble and fragile to touch, Hilton remembers. (10 words)
At the same time, the commission is considering amending the licenses of the other three dams to permit their operator, Brookfield Renewable, which also owns the Shawmut, to pursue feeble efforts to develop ways for fish to bypass these blockades. (40 words)
If anything, if such a manifesto ever existed then it was abandoned at the very first sign of trouble and this failure to stick to his guns left Beale looking like a rather feeble, entirely busted flush. (37 words)
I was able to speak Irish to some folks in these areas and they were kind enough to not laugh (loud enough for me to hear, at any rate) at my feeble attempts and horrible accent. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Feeble warning signs on approach, and another hotspot where there is a new ban on a popular right turn near His Majesty’s Theatre.
He is too old and too feeble to stand up to any questioning, let alone standing up to a loose cannon like Kennedy.
Honestly, my feeble little heart couldn't take it.
If anything, if such a manifesto ever existed then it was abandoned at the very first sign of trouble and this failure to stick to his guns left Beale looking like a rather feeble, entirely busted flush.
I was able to speak Irish to some folks in these areas and they were kind enough to not laugh (loud enough for me to hear, at any rate) at my feeble attempts and horrible accent.
Mordred is transformed into a feeble older man, inheriting all the pain and fatigue that comes with great age, leaving his mother to take care of him for the rest of eternity.
On Sunday, former Walmart CEO Bill Simon joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to warn Americans of the detrimental impact corporate layoffs could have on the U.S.'s feeble economy.
Reintroducing the monthly environmental practice is nothing but a feeble and unimaginative surrender to nostalgia.
The excuse of efficiency is a feeble rationale.
To this point, their anticipations have not been met, not even fractionally, with one leadership failure, and feeble excuse, after another.
Ultimately, history will show that Australia thoroughly outplayed South Africa in a series dominated by bravura fast bowling from both sides and mortally wounded by feeble Proteas batting.
Vladimir Putin evidently assumed that a democracy that allowed gay pride parades must be feeble.
At the same time, the commission is considering amending the licenses of the other three dams to permit their operator, Brookfield Renewable, which also owns the Shawmut, to pursue feeble efforts to develop ways for fish to bypass these blockades.
But never mind punching above it, this season they have not punched their weight, handicapping themselves with an overcrowded treatment room and away form that even by their historical standards at this level was feeble.
His feeble attempt to fight back was overwhelmed by the superstructure in Lagos.
In trotting out the usual feeble and hollow excuses, a top planner claimed that a u-turn at this stage – to go back to the previous traffic system – would “annoy” drivers.
I wrote my opinion on it and JJ then canceled — probably due to the column I wrote since Republican leadership was too feeble to tell JJ to do the right thing.
Mr Aldridge said some of the "feeble" ads he had seen on air tended to stop right before getting to the useful part.
Overall, it’s a feeble services sector in China where the heightened risk of a deflationary spiral seems to be hard to reverse at least in the mindsets of stock market participants.
She seemed too feeble and fragile to touch, Hilton remembers.
Common combinations with feeble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- feeble and 11×
- and feeble 6×
- too feeble 5×
- feeble to 5×
- feeble attempt 5×
- the feeble 4×
- of feeble 4×
- feeble attempts 3×
- feeble in 3×
- my feeble 2×