How to Use weak in a Sentence

weak

adjective

• The door's hinge is weak.
• The child was born with weak lungs.
• The batter hit a weak ground ball.
• The illness left her too weak to stand up.
• He has a weak throwing arm.
• She uttered her reply in a weak voice.
• The story was kind of weak — it could have been condensed.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 12 Nov. 2023
• Too weak and out of breath to stand at the dais, Marsden sat in the front row of the audience.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2024
• If the high is weaker, Lee may just recurve out to sea.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• Two large fistfuls of hair were stuck in its teeth, yanked loose like weak weeds from dirt.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Plotts don’t have enough nose, and the 30 or so Kibler has owned over the years were weak in homing instinct.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
• When iron levels are low, a person may feel weak or tired.
  — Rachel Meltzer Warren, M.s., Parents, 13 Dec. 2023
• If your squat is weak, stand with a chair behind you and squat down until your butt hits the chair, then stand up.
  — Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Medium Maybe some more clouds for Tuesday as a weak cold front advances from the west.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Ones that are old, weak, or poorly installed may buckle under the weight of the ice.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
• Sherwin, then 84, was at that point too weak to travel.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
• The area resident tried to toss the victim a life ring at least three times, but the man in his 50s was too weak to grab on, Slyvia said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
• Many Haitians saw him as at best weak, negligent, and silent in the face of abuses against his people.
  — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
• His hands were already too weak to grip the gadgets and appliances.
  — Maggie Levantovskaya, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2023
• But that’s modest compared to the broader tech sector, in part due to weak demand.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Demand has been weak for refined fuels and is likely to get worse.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
• Investors may be worried about more than just weak China sales.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 2 Feb. 2024
• For instance, one of Mr. Blosser’s managers scheduled a 15-minute Zoom chat with him to point out that the company’s sales pitch was weak.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
• The framing device of De Niro’s awkward narration is a weak spot, but otherwise the show is a five-episode treat.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• That is not an ideal method: Some responding hands are neither strong nor weak.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The term refers to storms that have more than one front and can have winds as weak as tropical depressions or as strong as hurricanes.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Henry saw a diminished workload (63 yards on 15 carries) last week in a loss to the Saints, but could feast against the Chargers’ weak linebacker corps.
  — Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Canadian output declined in the third quarter and is expected to remain weak through the first half of 2024.
  — Wsj Pro, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
• Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• And because the buildings here are structurally weaker, the number of the dead increases.
  — A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024