By then, he had grown frail and had difficulty walking, even with a cane.

But over the past several years, he had grown frail and had begun using a cane.

Grownup children often worry about their parents growing more frail or becoming ill but do not make any plans, and so their worrying intensifies.

At this point, Mayo was in his late seventies and growing increasingly frail.

Hemingway, a strong man grown frail, was finished and he knew it, saying so in the novel he had tried to write since 1946.

Thomas' father, formerly in the Army, grew weak and frail with old age.

His mother had stayed in her room and grown frail and bitter.

Eventually Father Constantine grew too old and frail for it.

She had grown so frail as to be almost transparent and only her eyes, piercing and uncompromising, seemed to remain of all that had been.

He had grown frighteningly frail since the last time she saw him and fear and love clutched painfully at her heart.