Sentences with fragile
frag·ile
F f - The fragile economies of several southern African nations could be irreparably damaged.
- He leaned back in his fragile chair.
- The two countries have formed a fragile coalition.
- He is in an emotionally fragile state.
- The haircut emphasised her fragile beauty.
- He felt irritated and strangely fragile, as if he were recovering from a severe bout of flu.
- Her health has always been very fragile.
- Many years have passed, democracy; however, is still sensitively fragile in this region.
- A fragile touch
- A fragile link with the past
- Fragile implies such delicacy of structure as to be easily broken [a fragile china teacup]; frangible adds to this the connotation of liability to being broken because of the use to which the thing is put [the handle on this ax seems frangible]; brittle implies such inelasticity as to be easily broken or shattered by pressure or a blow [the bones of the body become brittle with age]; crisp suggests a desirable sort of brittleness, as of fresh celery or soda crackers; , friable is applied to something that is easily crumbled or crushed into powder [friable rock]
- A fragile hope
- A fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- She has a fragile beauty.
- A fragile excuse.
- The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule. The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region. He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.