weak-kneed

How To Use weak-kneed In A Sentence

• Liberals were seen as weak-kneed wimps, unwilling to use force internationally and preoccupied with social welfare internally; local patriotisms prevailed everywhere.
• Diane clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands.
• Curiously weak-kneed and breathless, I climb onto the trackside and check my time: 74.16 seconds.
• He would need all his authority to keep the weak-kneed volunteers from bolting.
• Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians.
• I always knew that the oncologist was a weak-kneed little girl with a self-serving streak. A wholehearted "Yes!"
• The mere thought of this weak-kneed party getting into power sends shudders down my spine.
• She clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands.
• I'm tired of the weak-kneed undecideds in the swing states.
• His eyes met mine and I felt curiously light-headed and weak-kneed. I tore my eyes away with an effort, trying not to think about him.