Examples of weakling in a Sentence

he had been a weakling until high school, when he started working out to put on muscle only a weakling would be willing to lie to save himself from punishment

Recent Examples on the Web The script, alas, is a bit of a 98-pound weakling, but given the escapist demands probably sufficient to get the job done. — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 July 2022 In his first film role, Bathily (whose father grew up in the eponymous housing complex) was an unlikely choice; the part of Youri would seem to require a nerdy, 98-pound weakling, staring passively at the stars. — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022 Criticizing Biden for not establishing a no-fly zone is a more specific charge than simply calling him a weakling—a tangible thing that the president could be doing in Ukraine but isn’t. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2022 On the other side, Ukraine is a relative weakling in cyberspace that has become the first country to fight back against an invader by publicly calling up an international army of vigilante hackers. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022 At first, Daryl finds himself on the wrong side of that privileged weakling weasel, otherwise known as Sebastian, son of Pamela Milton, who runs this town. — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022 In the aftermath of the killing, Mr. Chun instigated a coup against Park’s weakling successor and began a reign of absolute power and terror. — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021 Yeah, that’s not going to happen, but the Warriors have at least a chance of improving their 90-pound-weakling image. — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2021 Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist at the New York Times, predicted before the election that Trump would turn out looking more a weakling than an autocrat. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020 See More

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