1.   The case against Sykes looked weaker by the minute.

2.   He is a womanizer with a wife who has an incurable illness and grows weaker by the day.

3.   Melissa Moy is urging as many people to get tested as possible because time is running out for Cindy, who grows weaker by the day.

4.   Queen Mab has ruled over a mysterious forest but is getting weaker by the year.

5.   They divorced at around the same time, a tenuous relationship made weaker by their financial problems.