How to Use weaken in a Sentence

weaken

verb

• The dollar has continued to weaken against the euro.
• The beams had been weakened by water damage.
• The disease weakens the immune system.
• The disease causes the immune system to weaken.
• Some are concerned that the increase in taxes will weaken the economy.
• The recent setbacks have not weakened our resolve.
• Lower interest rates have weakened the dollar.
• These kinds of contradictions weaken your argument.
• At the same time, some parts of the Sun's magnetic field weaken, and the field lines open out into space.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the strict law that ensured that success was weakened this year.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Hunger weakens the body’s defenses and opens the door to disease.
  — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Ozone pollution, meanwhile, can stunt the growth of trees and weaken plants, per the report.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
• This weakens the shaft on each strand and increases the breakage rate.
  — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
• The heat dome is expected to weaken and shift west this weekend allowing for the heat to back off.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The rain and gusty winds will persist throughout Saturday and then likely weaken by the evening.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• But its 80-store network across 10 cities shrank last year as business weakened.
  — Subrat Patnaik, Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2024
• The only current check on state power is the Supreme Court and the judiciary, which Netanyahu seeks to weaken.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• Both Japan and the United Kingdom said Thursday their economies likely weakened during the final three months of 2023.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Left untreated, a swarm of termites can chew through the floor joists and roof rafters of a house, weakening your home from the inside, Alexander explains.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 27 July 2023
• The Fed is concerned that a weakening jobs market may force its hand in prompting interest rate cuts.
  — Simon Moore, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• More flooding and mudslides were expected on Monday, even as the storm shows signs of weakening.
  — Adri Pray, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
• Netanyahu’s governing coalition passed a contentious law this week that weakens the power of the Supreme Court to serve as a check on the government.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• His administration took steps in May to weaken right-to-shelter laws in New York, and in June, the city sued more than 30 counties in the state that refused to house migrants.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The air currents churned up by the whirling blades risked weakening the only cable preventing the cable car from crashing to the bottom of the river canyon.
  — Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• The other twin had one mutated and one normal copy of the CCR5 gene, weakening the prospect of immunity.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• And worst of all, the structural integrity of the house itself was compromised, with wooden beams weakened and support structures gnawed to the brink of collapse.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Forecasters said Gert had weakened to a remnant low as of Tuesday morning.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Aug. 2023
• Sequoias need fire to reproduce, but the supercharged blazes of recent years have become lethal to the trees already weakened by drought and bark beetles.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Still, the stigma of public housing has weakened support for other housing aid.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• Too many or too-big holes could weaken a shell to its breaking point, so structural factors might limit which eyes are possible.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024