Sentence examples for flimsy in from inspiring English sources

Do solicitors run cases they know are flimsy in the hope of a quick settlement?

Lots of fleshy-sexy exotic imagery, but flimsy in comparison with Nair's astonishing Salaam Bombay!

Still, such bursts of comic fortitude aren't enough to carry a novel so flimsy in content.

It is little wonder that agreements made on behalf of Darfur have proved all too flimsy in the past.

Their engine was character; the needs of the characters drove the flimsy plots (not always flimsy, in Ibsen's case).

There was anger, too, that a public building should have proved so flimsy in a region known for its earthquakes.

Many Haitians, among others, pay thousands of dollars to smugglers for passage in flimsy boats in hopes of landing in the Bahamas, or reaching the United States, about 700 miles away, to find work.

Families sleep in flimsy tents in bitter cold.

In Dunkirk in northern France, more than 2,000 Kurds and Iranians, including many families with small children, remain stranded in flimsy tents in a cold, boggy field with almost no facilities.

The Energy Department has concluded that the amount of plutonium and other man-made radioactive elements released into soil or buried in flimsy containers in the first four decades of nuclear weapons manufacture was 10 times larger than it had estimated.

NGOs said as many as 14,000 asylum seekers and migrants living in flimsy tents in an improvised camp on the border were having to make do with 24 showers and 140 toilet cubicles.