Sentence examples for flimsy cover from inspiring English sources
The truck drivers' argument that Mexican trucks are unsafe is spurious — a flimsy cover for protectionism.
More than 40 townspeople who resisted the intervention were also arrested on charges of illegally possessing weapons — a flimsy cover for a questionable operation.
The Emperor Nero, having had his mother murdered, sent the Senate a flimsy cover story involving a shipwreck, a coup, and a suicide.
Andy Stern, the service employees' president, said the nurses association's efforts were "nothing more than a flimsy cover for out-and-out union busting that we normally see from employers, not organizations that claim to care about workers".
Iceland guesses that its minke whales eat about 2m tonnes of marine "biomass" a year a bit more than its fishermen catch and wants to know how much of that is, for instance, cod.Sceptics sniff profitsAnti-whalers say this is a flimsy cover for commercial fishing interests, buttressing the Greenpeace line about the imminent return of large-scale commercial whaling.
Hot, non? Superman, Spiderman, Satan Horse, Green Ant, and my personal favorite — the Charles In Charge Illustrated Graphic Novel: Charles Gets Drunk may have all gotten us through some tough times in grade school, but kids of the future won't be able to feel the ink rubbing off on their fingers and the flimsy cover stock ripping in a back pocket — many Marvel greats are now going digital.
Whilst alongside fellow volunteers, it was truly heartening to see the number of people willing to give their time and energy working towards housing refugees who live in the most pitiful conditions in totally inadequate tents and flimsy covers, exposed to the elements just as they are to repression.
Instead they read comics, shoulders hunched to protect the flimsy covers from the wind, puzzling out the last dram, the last square inch of information, the credits, the letters page, the copyright, the Sea Monkeys ads, the insult that made a man out of Mac.
The quality of paperbacks and such today really is awful: pulp paper, blurry type, flimsy covers — it'll be no mystery when Jane Six-Pack opts for a slick, light e-reader a couple models down the line.
Frankly, anyone who was paying attention will know the reporter's dispatches were the flimsiest cover for his 'product', as the spymasters call it.
He was gasping for breath, his frail body fighting the flimsy blanket that covered him with every desperate gulp for air.
