How to Use weakness in a Sentence

weakness

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  • The weakness of her voice surprised me.
  • He has a weakness for desserts.
  • I told them my secret in a moment of weakness.
  • Some see compromise as a sign of weakness.
  • The tutor assessed the student's strengths and weaknesses.
  • The incident exposed his weakness as a leader.
  • The basketball team has few weaknesses.
  • Chocolate is my greatest weakness.
  • But, at the end of the day, look, weakness arouses evil.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Jack is the biggest evidence of the weakness in the wards.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, their weaknesses are tough to take, and the losses painful.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Number one is a point of strength for them, but also a point of weakness.
    — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That left the Fed to fight economic weakness on its own.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
  • All three of the touchdowns to Smith were new designs built to exploit a weakness.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2023
  • His starters showed no signs of weakness from the opening kickoff.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Yet its weakness should be evident right from the start.
    — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Because of this, the Fed is watching the jobs market closely for signs of weakness.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • For many in the region, such language smacks of a dangerous kind of weakness rather than strength.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But that’s who Rahm is and has been: A player without a weakness, a game that translates on every type of course.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • One of the weaknesses of the Hybrid FET is its resistance to current flow when the transistor is in the on state.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The 7-13 Reds have a number of flaws, but infield defense might be their biggest weakness.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In the letter, parts of which were redacted, Huizar said his own weakness had forever changed his life.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Kansas pass rush, long considered a weakness of this year’s team, tallied six sacks in a game for the first time in nearly 14 years.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But weakness in the Chinese economy and yuan have hurt China’s sales over time.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And were some of those weaknesses, in part, the result of trying to mold that army into a US-style military? 6.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Children may have symptoms such as a cough, weakness, lethargy, weight loss, fever or night sweats.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • There are plenty of reasons to believe that this is a function of Joe Biden’s overall weakness.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The secondary was expected to be Baltimore’s weakness before the season, but the unit has held up well.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
  • At what point does Onana’s weakness in shot-stopping start to outweighs his strength in possession?
    — Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The weaknesses of Russia’s military had been on display for more than a year.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2023

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