Sentence examples for flimsy structure from inspiring English sources

These look like reforms with all the substance of a Potemkin village, a flimsy structure to impress foreign opinion.

Instead, they seem determined to make us all wait and watch, to see if the flimsy structure will stand or collapse.

At least, Ms. Lemazor said, they are no longer sleeping in a junked car, but in a flimsy structure fashioned from plastic sheeting and salvaged wood.

In his 1899 book, "The New Metropolis," E. Idell Zeisloft called the Arsenal "a flimsy structure of vulgarized Norman architecture," and it became a favorite target for replacement or demolition.

The state avoids a confrontation with them, presumably because it is not yet certain whether it is bankrupt and whether loss of additional lands could bring the whole flimsy structure of state government toppling down.

The sukkah, a flimsy structure whose roof is made of branches or reeds, is meant to remind Jews of the temporary dwellings the ancient Israelites lived in as they fled Egypt for the Promised Land.

The game involves launching peevish birds at green pigs hiding inside flimsy structures.

But many of these flimsy structures nonetheless have running water, electricity, telephones, refrigerators and televisions.

And which, of all these flimsy structures, will be standing a hundred years from now? Probably not a single one.

The earthquake gashed solid 18th-century palazzi and shook the brickwork out of flimsy structures thrown up in the 1960s.

These were such worryingly flimsy structures that they could have been made of graph paper by a bored pupil in the back of a year 10 geometry class.