Sentence examples for flimsy construction from inspiring English sources

The nest is constructed of twigs, conifer needles, or grass blades, and is of flimsy construction.

It's flimsy construction.

Hundreds of adobe (mud-brick) houses, because of their flimsy construction, crumbled like so much earth.

The death wish is built into the feeble, thin, and flimsy construction of the women's characters.

But casualties are inevitable because of the turbulent sea and the flimsy construction of the smugglers' boats.

From the time of its origin in England, the circus was often presented in a theatre setting, mostly in permanent or semipermanent buildings of flimsy construction.

This is in contrast to the plain, flimsy constructions thrown up in a few months by today's architects.

In 1930 the new buildings of Oxford Street were seen as "rather flimsy", constructions that might not stand a vigorous prod.

The nest is a typical pigeon construction, a flimsy structure of twigs and grasses usually placed high in a tree in thick forest.

The plaster broke like icing off the two or three thicknesses of flimsy hollow brick inside – an absurdly cheap, thin construction to have kept East from West for the past 28 years.

This small number was by no means the fault of flimsy Japanese construction.