Example Sentences

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That kind of overwrought rhetoric seems mismatched with the feebleness of the actual effort to keep Mamdani out of office.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Liz had become accustomed to Grandma’s feebleness in her last years; her youthful strength came as a wonderful surprise.

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

Its medical potential could liberate us from our bodily feebleness, and its political potential could ultimately subjugate the entire species to dull, dutiful conformity.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

“Our observations about the feebleness of Tracy’s blows and the lack of impact they had on Alcee’s death are not intended to minimize the wrongfulness of Tracy’s behavior,” Justice Gary Traynor wrote for the court.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2018

To lead a thirteenth card merely because, as some persons assert, they "did not know what else to do," is an exhibition of feebleness of intelligence.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis