Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: weaker
IPA transcription: [w'ikɚ]
Pronunciations of weaker
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Usage examples
  • Usually it is fed to the babies and weaker children.
  • Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.
  • "Since my last, Mr. Hume has passed his time pretty easily, but is much weaker.
  • Not having received his usual meal the bird became sensibly weaker, and looked round once more.
  • Finding herself weaker than she had thought, she stopped an empty cab that presently passed her, and so drove to the Milvains' lodgings.
  • I joined the weaker party, arming myself with the weapons of a fallen officer, and fighting I knew not whom with the nervous ferocity of despair.
  • But each time he thought, 'I shall be able to control it better than the last, and it will grow weaker and weaker until at last it will pass and to return no more.'
  • For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
  • Perhaps my heart was weaker than the hearts of most men, and I suffered more than they would have done in my place; that is all." The countess stopped for a moment, as if gasping for breath.
  • The prophecy seemed to imply--if it implied anything--a final triumph on the part of the already more powerful house; and was of course remembered with the more bitter animosity by the weaker and less influential.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0