flimsy in English
voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats
credit-card flimsies
Use "flimsy" in a sentence
1. She felt cold in her flimsy dress.
2. The evidence against him is very flimsy.
3. The evidence against him is extremely flimsy .
4. The evidence against him is rather flimsy.
5. The charges were based on very flimsy evidence.
6. The actual evidence against him was flimsy.
7. The evidence against him is pretty flimsy.
8. Do you have a flimsy, glass-panelled back door?
9. We spent the night in a flimsy wooden hut.
10. Homeless men huddled beneath flimsy blankets on the sidewalk.
11. Backstitching should be avoided on very fine, flimsy fabrics
12. You won't be warm enough in that flimsy dress.
13. The flimsy structure of the vehicle could not withstand even mild impacts.
14. The storm flattened the flimsy wooden huts that the villagers lived in.
15. Only a flimsy barrier stops the crowd from spilling onto the field.
16. And on such flimsy grounds she'd apparently been tried and sentenced.
17. Their flimsy tent gave/offered little protection against the severe storm.
18. + When a flimsy partition wall is built, they are plastering it with whitewash.’
19. 18 The flimsy structure of the vehicle could not withstand even mild impacts.
20. 6 The storm flattened the flimsy wooden huts that the villagers lived in.
21. Synonyms for Breakable include delicate, fragile, frail, frangible, brittle, crumbly, flimsy, friable, destructible and insubstantial
22. Some observers have drawn attention to the fact that such assumptions themselves rest on flimsy foundations.
23. SCIENTISTS have long wondered how insects, with their heavy bodies and flimsy wings, can remain airborne.
24. Saw your, flowing through the flimsy skins, around the sheer perfume, reeking in your invisible smile.
25. He walked out fast, leaving the head waiter staring dubiously at the flimsy blue paper.
26. It wasn't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress, was it?
27. Still, as flimsy as Jerusalem might appear before the all-conquering Assyrian army, she will survive.
28. She was wearing only a thin robe over a flimsy nightdress, and her feet were bare.
29. Walking barefoot , or in flimsy shoes without sufficient arch support , can overstretch , tear , or inflame the plantar fascia .
30. It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.
31. Alice struggled out of the flimsy pink nightgown and tossed it at the foot of the bed.
32. Special Correspondents is a flimsy, irrelevant, unfunny 'satirical comedy' which adds up to nothing much at all
33. The effectiveness of even the best quality locks will be reduced if a door frame is flimsy.
34. The school claimed that the decision was based on flimsy evidence from an unsatisfactory inspection in April.
35. She punched tiny discs from a flimsy sheet of iron foil and placed them in the anvil.
36. Bandeaus are a less structured version of a strapless bra, but that doesn't mean they have to feel flimsy
37. Aerograms were printed on flimsy lightweight paper and would allow many more letters of this type to be carried
38. 7 It's the money that spurs these fishermen to risk a long ocean journey in their flimsy boats.
39. When I asked him why he was late, he gave me some flimsy excuse about having car trouble.
40. In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.
41. The spherical pressure hull formed the head of a flimsy, arrow-shaped structure more than a hundred yards long.
42. She opened the case and looked with dismay at the flimsy green silk nightdress lying on top of the matching gown.
43. This was a particularly flimsy sounding rationale coming from Martinez, who took such a dim view of his students' prospects.
44. Another visitor who arrived just before the Bigelow party took one look at the flimsy contrivance and declined to descend.
45. The adult Antlions, flimsy, fluttery creatures, race to mate and lay eggs before being eaten by birds, bats, and other fly eaters.
46. And if you have a song called ‘River Of Blood’, it should be soul-Blanchingly terrifying, not a flimsy 13th Floor Elevators pastiche
47. Graham's legal representatives issued a statement expressing he was "shocked and upset to have been sacked and could not believe such a flimsy excuse was given".
48. Those abettors do not hesitate to offer flimsy excuses for their actions, while at the same time setting conditions for an end to the fighting.
49. Those abettors do not hesitate to offer flimsy excuses for their actions, while at the same time setting conditions for an end to the fighting
50. Celia’s fierce 160-mile-per-hour winds had been vented impartially on all sections of the city, toppling structures from flimsy shacks to huge brick buildings.