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Sentence Examples Maybe that's why they're there, to add structural strength because of the somewhat flimsy nature of aluminium. He believes the new-style permits issued by the council are too flimsy and not sticky enough. Boasting four fire buttons, plus a fairly flimsy throttle control, this too has plenty of features. They look flimsy but I've seen even very small specimens luring several stocky zebra spiders to their doom in their webs. Part of the reason I want one of these things is that my current flimsy ticket keeps getting demagnetised when it goes anywhere near my phone. States which are defenseless can be attacked at will, with the most flimsy pretexts and virtually no international support. Furthermore, the wild gales in summer could sometimes easily blow down the flimsy sheds. The gauzy curtains might represent flimsy barriers that will be easy for you to push through to get what you need. A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie. Only later were they housed in flimsy huts where they continue to live today. Dawn woke, shivering on the cold, hard ground in the flimsy tent that the Shadows had erected. He literally trembled with excitement as he slid his right foot into the flimsy garment and pulled it up to his thigh. Once again, the exegetical basis is too flimsy to support the revisionist view. The longer, flimsy skirt hanging out of a coat is a rather edgy trend right now. Men wearing short-sleeved shirts and girls in flimsy dresses and bare legs happily parade about in practically sub-zero temperatures. She is wearing a light, flimsy dress, very fey, and her face has a faraway expression. Unlike previous doors he had passed which were flimsy and made of cheap, laminated wood, this one was unscratched and made of stained rosewood. He had on a blue V-neck sweater over a loose T-shirt, a short, rather flimsy jacket, jeans, sneakers, and no hat. I unzipped the covering and inwardly groaned at the sight of the flimsy white dress. But that just means our parks are now full of special bins containing flimsy plastic bags packed with excrement. Show More Sentences Now that she was closer, Vigilante could see her better, and noticed that she wore a flimsy nightgown. I was half asleep, standing out in the freezing cold with nothing but a flimsy coat to defend my racking bones from the frigid cold. There was a woman too, dressed in a flimsy robe, curled up in a chair just to the side of the big man. We chose not to publish at the time as independent confirmatory evidence was too flimsy. But my flimsy excuses and confusing metaphors weren't enough to keep myself convinced. Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation. Their only real purpose is to provide a flimsy excuse to make a recommendation. What is particularly fascinating, however, is that the whole story is built on such a very flimsy foundation. But the case against him was so flimsy that he was released without charge six days later. Other avocado trees grew tall and rather flimsy as they were planted too close together and we did not realise that we should have topped them. She wore a flimsy white cotton dress with short sleeves, a pink sash about the waist, and a skirt that blew in the wind. It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels obliged to adduce flimsy evidence and extrapolate fanciful conclusions from it. French supermarkets, bless them, no longer give out flimsy plastic carriers. When Wray pulls on a flimsy robe to cover her scanties to answer the door, gentleman caller Raft tries to make a move on her. With a power line in place, the two flimsy solar cell solution on opposite sides of the pole is feasible. It has exposed mains voltage solder points on top, no earth connection and one very flimsy and very dull aluminium end. First of all newspapers are rather flimsy by nature and thus quite perishable and this fragility tends to limit value. Maybe it was fifteen minutes later when the scratch at the flimsy door disturbed us. Irresponsible bishops are now much more likely to dump on their priests over flimsy accusations than to dump on victims for real ones. Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together. Show More Sentences They sleep on flimsy mattresses and wrap themselves in parkas or sleeping bags to keep warm at night. Honda's second-generation technology enables this Civic to achieve miserly fuel economy without being a flimsy little econobox. Many arrests proved doubtful with large numbers of detainees held on flimsy evidence after politically motivated tip-offs by local rivals. Not 25 yards behind me are nearly destitute people preparing to bed down for the night under flimsy pieces of cloth attached to poles. Being no flimsy dinghy, this sailboat required a lot of muscle to set so much sail. As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick. On top of it all was a flimsy, translucent material embedding the palm trees picture. Also, a pair of tricksy pop-out cupholders hide behind a flimsy bit of plastic on the passenger side. The paper on which the books were printed was flimsy and cheap, and the books sold chiefly on the strength of their garish covers. I took the flimsy song words on paper and ripped them up, till coloured confetti showered on my legs and hands. The windows have been blacked out and in place of the flimsy trade-show stands we have modular screens, creating the feeling of separate rooms. Despite my flimsy belief system, though, something told me not to mess around with this sort of thing, even though I knew it was all guff. He uncrumpled the bag from around the water bottle and let the light flimsy plastic drift down behind him, idly fiddling with opening the bottle. The gangplank seemed so flimsy, and every time she boarded a ship, she was afraid that it would collapse, and she would be thrown into the water. Modern plastics and latex materials are too elastic and flimsy to compete with nature's brilliant design. The unfamiliar sight of these flimsy crowded vessels shocked Australian audiences and awakened old fears of the yellow hordes. The flimsy, irritating cardboard sleeve and rather pretentious sleeve notes don't help. It's my own duty to expose Caz for the flimsy lies and unfounded insults she slaps up here on a weekly basis. So I buy the wrong footwear, a flimsy slipper when my climbing style is better suited to a model with a thin mid sole. Their flimsy structures are nailed together and roofed with corrugated iron. Show More Sentences Obviously this rather flimsy argument by elimination carries very little weight by itself. It has a buckle on it, not some flimsy snap, so it couldn't have come loose, either. Neither was she one of your brazen-faced jilts, with nothing but flimsy balderdash in their talk, and a libertine forwardness in their manners. A narrow, flimsy staircase led through a hole in the ceiling to another floor upstairs. Proving prostitution or related charges like soliciting and trespassing is difficult, and in most cases the evidence is fairly flimsy. Every time someone takes a step anywhere in the house, these flimsy windows rattle something fierce. The handbrake looks very out of place and somewhat flimsy compared to the rest of the interior. Oh you studied creatures, you flimsy confections of powder and resin, set in tinsel and imitation leather! His dry voice-over narration also adds considerably to the film, helping us to accept this flimsy story. The trouble has been that the seemingly flimsy excuse for a bread product really can be a diet buster. I'll also not forget the scene in Othello when Iago talks The Moor into believing something which flimsy evidence would easily prove to be false. Even those who like their comedy gently done are likely to find this too flimsy and obvious. And there was the ultralight, a flimsy little tricycle fitted with a hang-glider's wings and a motor hooked up with a propeller. Horrified onlookers could only watch, as an offshore wind blew their flimsy dinghy vessel, into deeper water. He was no seaman, yet those vessels looked too flimsy to his landsman's eye. The slide was flimsy, and if you had the help of a stout friend you could tip it over. Meanwhile, the drunken man on the other side of the room was struggling to break free of the flimsy curtain that separated us. This explanation is flimsy, as chamfering generally involves rounding off the edges, rather than altering 70 percent of its surface area. But super-power trappings offer only a flimsy mask for the realities of poverty and are no substitute for grassroots economic development. How can we raise a secure and objective historiographical edifice on such flimsy foundations? Show More Sentences This is not a complete dissection of the flimsy arguments that underlie the country's China syndrome on nuclear weapons. I bellied up to a flimsy, portable bar that had been set up for the occasion. A typical design includes either a circuit board or a flimsy material that lies underneath the buttons on the keyboard. The sword of Damocles that hangs over our heads is suspended by a thin and flimsy thread, indeed. Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts. Her costumes steal the show, flimsy cobwebs dew-dropped with crystals in shimmering colours. Balancing a flimsy umbrella on her shoulder, she began to walk as stately and imperially as ever, into a nearby inn and bar. The print on some of the photostat and carbon copy sheets has faded and these items are particularly flimsy. Picking up a small dandelion as they walked, Sara struggled to blow off all the flimsy, feathery seedlings. Hats must be worn, and not little feathery flimsy things, but proper ones which cover the crown. It's a flimsy effort, but oddly, to me, so much more real than anything I've put on this here digital contrivance. But sheerly as an exercise in English composition, Kay's statement is as flimsy as advertising copy. One woman in Vicar Lane had already snapped the flimsy strap on her vest top, and laughed as her breast fell out to give a gang of cheering lads an eyeful. Yet the scenery for this annus mirabilis production has always been rather flimsy. Too eager to be respectful, he knocked more and more forcefully, shaking the brittle wallboards and splintering a few pieces of the flimsy sun-baked wood. People needed housing, and providing this was left to jerry-builders who put together cheap, insufficient, flimsy dwellings that soon fell into disrepair. It's hard to maneuver your video camera wearing flimsy hooded rainwear. Hustvedt is an excellent writer but the structure of the book seems as flimsy as a house of cards, and the resolution at the end highly unsatisfactory. When it comes to invading foreign countries on false or flimsy pretexts, the Russians have lots of company. On the last Sunday in March, Marina is hanging diapers on a flimsy clothesline stuck in the grass in the small backyard. Show More Sentences Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place. Zuckerberg, or at least the narrow, shallow portrait painted of him in The Social Network, seems to embody that flimsy promise. Putin has taken off the flimsy mask of democracy to reveal himself in full as the would-be KGB dictator he has always been. Obligation, she ruefully reflected, was a flimsy basis for creativity. The tamarisk trees cast flimsy shadows on the lake's surface. I had been waiting a very long time for this talk with the retention officer, just so I could hear his inane babble and immediately shoot down his flimsy efforts. Fishing is still an important activity in the area and one can sit for hours watching fishermen putting out to sea in unfeasibly flimsy wooden craft. One of the reviews in England said my songs were flip and flimsy trifles. These boxes look flimsy and remind me of the old metal money boxes for children which the most adept could easily relieve of the collected treasure. They were kept inside a flimsy wire fence on an undersized dirt lot. In the center of the room was a square table, flimsy like a card table. The optical drive's flimsy spring-loaded door is very chintzy. Like a huge pressure pushing against my skin, I could feel it trying to claw its way out of me, trying to push through the flimsy barrier of flesh my body provided. From the opposite end, through a flimsy barrier of water-damaged ceiling tile, he could hear the catch in his grandmother's chest as she breathed. They could have easily slipped past the flimsy barricade of starguards but the monsters merely threw themselves at them, incinerating and ripping in a frenzy. The majority are trying to reach the Canary Islands in flimsy boats. The families had erected flimsy tents by stitching rags together. He had barely braced himself with some of his wife's flimsy dresses and a vacuum cleaner before the entire foundation shook with the impact of the rocket against it. Here Kristine sat in a flimsy dress, proudly carrying Cassie on her arm. Plus there was only a flimsy shower curtain between the two of us. Show More Sentences Excuses seem flimsy, and even the best are still just excuses. The evidence was so flimsy that the case should never have gone to trial. No, we can't let them squeak by with a flimsy excuse like that. A handful had remained loyal to their oath as doctors or to their basic sense of decency and had refused to carry out instructions, citing valid excuses or flimsy pretexts. Many encumbrances that our bodies endure, including detrimental ones like viruses, have an unwelcome and deeply altering effect on our already flimsy corporal authority. Off she flapped, her flimsy cotton based trainers galumphing all the way. Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper. The report is full of similar exonerations on flimsy grounds. Until rugby disinvents its latest flimsy image, though, White will play the strategy games and, quite obviously, he's good at them. The nest is a flimsy platform of straw and sticks, laid on a ledge, under cover, often on the window ledges of buildings. He led his ships in attacks on neutral Hanseatic League and Spanish ships in the Channel on flimsy grounds of sovereignty. Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand. Inside there was a flimsy paper hat, a groaner of a joke and a shower buffer. It comes with a soft tonneau cover which is secured by two snap fasteners, but these felt flimsy compared to the rest of the arrangement. It comes with a soft tonneau cover, which is secured by two snap fasteners, but these felt flimsy compared to the rest of the arrangement. Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands. Lesvos is one of the Greek islands that has been overwhelmed by those arriving, often packed on to flimsy vessels. But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight. There was a steel napkin dispenser, the napkins themselves those little trifolds that manage to be both flimsy and sturdy at the same time, which seems impossible, but is not. Cynics argue the success of the Mersey TV soap boils down to leggy blonde actresses parading themselves in flimsy plots and even flimsier clothes. Show More Sentences Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all. Getting your mitts on those flimsy thingamajigs with the pre-cut slats and the t-shirt shaped team tabs in club colours was one of the highlights of the season. It's the euro that appears flimsy, with what look like new-fangled video-game images designed by a 20-something and hastily downloaded onto brittle paper. Examples from Classical Literature Didn't that shapeless, flimsy, flappy little nuisance I allude to, rule the house from garret to cellar before it was a month old? Looked at close-to, it is merely a flimsy building of wood, freakishly architected, and painted an indifferent white. While she secured the flimsy door, he ripped through his belongings, aligning his EI communicator again on his breakfast table. How eagerly we accept the argument, flimsy as it may be, which accords with our wishes! Somebody had turned on the electric fans, and long streams of flimsy fabric were blowing about like a surrealist maypole dance. It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre. But the folding of the flimsy batch on his knee was executed with thoughtful nicety. Their statements were flimsy, and guilt was plainly written on their faces. Well, there is something a little too flimsy and unpracticable about that word Utopia. It was as if he discovered himself flimsy and transparent in a world of minatory solidity and opacity. Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched his long lank body away over his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight. He searched amongst the papers on his desk and brought out at last a flimsy half-sheet of notepaper which he studied carefully. Directed by the newcomers, they made a trench and bank about the mounting of the piece, and constructed flimsy shelter-pits of corrugated iron. He fought down the flimsy, clumsy methods, which led from one snarl to another. Never had Captain Wragge burned his adulterated incense on the flimsy altar of human vanity to better purpose than he was burning it now. The girl had a kind of flimsy prettiness which suggested a cotillon favor. He bought a barrel of it from a small factory in Richmond, but after a trial it proved to be too flimsy. She took off her jacket and sat more at ease in her blouse, of some soft, flimsy silk. Whether his positions were tenable or flimsy, they had been openly taken. He passed through, and the flimsy covering fell to behind him. Show More Sentences It seemed a flimsy structure, supported only by tubular steel. As a rule, they are of a flimsy and gimcrack order of architecture. They were flimsy shelters, most of them poorly built of light wood, with spindle porch-posts horribly mutilated by the turning-lathe. All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. This fun but flimsy film improbably beat The Act Of Killing to win the best documentary Oscar earlier this month. Held wears a flimsy, nymphlike frock and striped cakewalk pants. A vacuum tube lifter equipped with a pad attachment with six foam seal vacuum cups has been introduced for handling rubber sheet and other flimsy materials. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of flimsy? Words that rhyme with flimsy What is the plural of flimsy? What is the adverb for flimsy? What is the adjective for flimsy? What is the noun for flimsy? Translations for flimsy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words flimsiness flimsily flimsiest flimsier flimflams flimflamming flinch Flinch flinched flinches flinching flinchingly 6-letter Words Starting With f fl fli flim flims