Sentence example with the word 'fragile'

fragile

breakable, crisp, dying, flimsy, fugitive, insubstantial, namby-pamby, scissile, slight, transitory, weakly

Definition adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed

Last update: April 2, 2016


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She looks very fragile.   [adjective]

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Dishes made of bone china are fragile.   [adjective]

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in this box there is a fragile thing   [Please select]

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A Streetcar Named Desire fiction Tennessee Williams Williams won the Pulitzer Prize with this portrayal of a fading, fragile belle.   [adjective]

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This would wreak devastation in such a fragile environment.   [adjective]

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But you, madam, a being so young and fragile, have you no fear of the contagion.   [adjective]

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On his left, the withes which bound her to a pine, performed that office for Alice which her trembling limbs refused, and alone kept her fragile form from sinking.   [adjective]

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The fragile recluse seemed transformed into a warrior ready for battle.   [adjective]

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I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking.   [adjective]

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She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than granite.   [adjective]

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The specimens should be collected when the capsules are just appearing above or in the colesule or calyx; if kept in a damp saucer they soon arrive at maturity, and can then be mounted in better condition, the fruit-stalks being too fragile to bear carriage in a botanical tin case without injury.   [Please select]

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fractious - fragile - fragmentary