Example sentences for: weakened

How can you use “weakened” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the final days of the Gulf War, most American strategists anticipated that a decisive Iraqi defeat would lead to a coup against a weakened Saddam Hussein.

  • Hoffa will likely win the next Teamsters election, but the union is too weakened by corruption and too bullied by management and the feds to be the force it once was.

  • Indeed, as the self-proclaimed imperial savior of an Aryan Europe weakened by Jews and socialism, he exalted the quest for lebensraum as a struggle to the death.

  • He brought the weakened bomb into Hitler's briefing room and nudged it as close to the target as he could, then left on a mumbled excuse, drove off the compound, and flew to Berlin.

  • "Politically weakened by the interminable inquiry into his escapades, Bill Clinton cannot permit himself to open a new front," it added.


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