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Example sentences for "feebly"

Lexicographically close words:
feeble; feebleminded; feebleness; feebler; feeblest; feed; feedback; feede; feeder; feeders
  1. The great hunter knelt down and tried to stanch the donkey's wounds, and it seemed grateful to him, for it feebly flapped its long ears two or three times before it lay still for ever.

  2. The sick lady feebly echoed, "Of course," and closed her eyes again.

  3. There were no mock mourners in the trappings of affected woe, but there was one real mourner who feebly tottered after the corpse.

  4. This addition of pleasure precludes desire or aversion, and in consequence the voluntary power is feebly exerted, and on this account rocking young children inclines them to sleep.

  5. The last caricature from Cruikshank upon Napoleon came feebly in 1842 with the issue of "George Cruikshank's Omnibus," wherein he figures as a skeleton in boots surmounting a pyramid of skulls.

  6. When he, with racked and whirling brain, Feebly implored her to explain, She simply said it all again.

  7. Zell put her lips to proper uses to that extent that Mrs. Allen began to grow jealous, nervous, and out of sorts generally, and having finished her chocolate, rose feebly from the table.

  8. Mrs. Allen lamented feebly and indefinitely, Laura only appeared more settled in her apathy, and, like Zell and Edith, was utterly silent through the forlorn meal.

  9. We feel that we have spoken feebly of our Highland forests.

  10. But now the room is disenchanted--and feebly our lamp is glimmering, about to leave us to the light of the moon and stars.

  11. He was feebly fumbling at his camera-box, as if he had some idea of using it, and had forgotten that it was fixed to the plane, but the old man seemed temporarily to have lost his wits.

  12. Bird rallied slightly and feebly drew a bottle from his pocket and sniffed it.

  13. Mr. Chalk, still pale and shaking somewhat, smiled feebly and followed the captain into the house.

  14. She neighed feebly in answer to his call, and reeled forwards.

  15. Give me to drink," said Alan, walking feebly towards the fire, and extending his skinny fingers before it.

  16. The room was sombre and dusky, partially dismantled of its once flowing arras, and the lights set upon the table feebly illumined its dreary extent.

  17. He staggered feebly down-stairs, knocked at the door of the dynamiters, and said.

  18. The dirty water seemed to be thrown from the windows into the court, where it stood in puddles or feebly trickled into the sewer, from which emanated nauseous and deadly gases.

  19. We smiled feebly at each other with that assumption of masculine superiority which is miserably conscious of its own helplessness at such moments.

  20. James feebly moved his two hands, and Soames took them.

  21. And somehow the utter impossibility of knowing what his elder brother, once so looked up to, would have said, so worried James that he got up from his chair by the window, and began slowly, feebly to pace the room.

  22. You hear them coughing feebly in the twilight,--the old reverend blackgowns.

  23. At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat a time.

  24. The light that had shone so brightly in Isaiah and Jeremiah burned feebly in Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, and then went out.

  25. There are many whose prayers seem to themselves too feebly winged to rise to the throne of grace; they are encouraged and helped when their petitions are borne upwards on the strong pinions of another's faith.

  26. These are the things, he feebly understood, that women do for men; and what had been mere hearsay to his strong manhood had become experience.

  27. Felicia rose feebly to go to her own room, which adjoined her mother's.

  28. The last he saw of it was the four foaming Dogs feebly dodging after a weak and worn-out Jack-rabbit, and the judge on his Horse beckoning to the man with the gun.

  29. He heard the voices of the women feebly praying.

  30. Thor was fully awake now; he rose slowly on his elbow and feebly shouted "Sssh-hi," at which the shining eyes reappeared under the table and the gray form came forth.

  31. They all spoke at the same time, and made a hubbub which could only be feebly imitated at the Paris Stock Exchange.

  32. It has also feebly acidic properties, forming ferrites with strong bases.

  33. They are non-magnetic or very feebly magnetic.

  34. When she regained consciousness a faint glow of light met her eyes as the lids feebly lifted themselves from their torpor.

  35. Feebly she began to wonder what manner of men these thieves could be, these miscreants who lived in a castle, who had lady's maids about them, who sang in cheery tones and who knew neither fear nor caution.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feebly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barely; delicately; gently; hardly; imperfectly; lightly; little; low; minimally; minutely; pianissimo; piano; scarcely; slightly; softly; weakly