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.
• Peace in the light, peace in the dark, peace in the big, peace in the small, peace in the weak, peace in the strong.
  — Chaplain Sharon Kugler, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2022
• In a tough midterm year, the last thing Biden needs is to look weak.
  — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2022
• The statement was strong, the response at the event was weak.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• As predators on the top of the food chain, whale sharks feed off the weak and sick.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• At one point, Williams weighed 105 pounds and was too weak to stand.
  — Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 5 Jan. 2023
• Reneé Rapp has learned the hard way that falling in love isn’t for the weak.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022
• Then, McIlroy hit a weak drive to the right and was blocked by pines.
  — Time, 14 Apr. 2025
• In the 1950s they were portrayed as weak and subservient to men.
  — Francine Russo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2022
• This happens when the tooth holding the crown in place is too weak to keep the crown in place.
  — Sherri Gordon, Health, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• The oil market is so weak that not even a rescue from OPEC+ seemed to help.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• And so what that’s done is it’s made the scholarship around Black men weak.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• But as things stand now, the case for de-extinction is weak.
  — Andy Lamey, The New Republic, 15 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Many also point out that the scent is perfect: Not too strong, and not too weak.
  — Elizabeth Berry and Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 13 June 2022
• This should have been a layup for Trump against a weak candidate.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
• Of Vegas’ last eight games, six were at home and all eight were against some of the league’s weakest teams.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• The Tigers’ lone weak spot last season was their faceoffs.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022
• Cleanup crews noted the tree’s root system was very weak.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
• But Baumann got Riley Bertram, hitting sixth, to hit a weak grounder back to the mound for the third out.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2022
• Strength is beating up on people who are weaker than you.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
• Other top dishes — though again, top is relative for a week this weak — include Shuai’s scallion pancake.
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025