Sentence examples for flimsy wire from inspiring English sources

The problem is that they often feel haphazardly strung, and on a rather flimsy wire.

But thanks to a metal stylus connected by a flimsy wire to a keyboard, you could tap out a tune on what was proclaimed as "the original pocket electronic organ".

Is it his bulky heft, the sleepy-eyed sneer or the memory of vein-popping menace as he strangled a man with little more than flimsy wire and a sweaty grip that keeps me from believing Gandolfini could ever be anyone other than a New Jersey mafia don?

The storm tore branches off oak trees more than a century old and did considerable damage to the house, but, when it was all over, the Calder mobile — a lignum-vitae disc delicately perched on a cigar-shaped lignum-vitae pole and sprouting flimsy wire stems and leaves — was still upright, the leaves fluttering languidly and making a cheerful tinkling sound as the disc revolved on the pole.

We approach one that reeks of rancid tuna fish and attempt to push open the basement door, held closed only by a flimsy wire.

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Our sector and the one occupied by the supposedly neutral fans were separated by a flimsy chicken-wire fence.

But just as increased security efforts elsewhere shifted patterns of illegal migration to Douglas, these patterns have more recently shifted again to desert regions beyond the extended walls, where flimsy barbed-wire fencing separates the two countries.

Over and over, Staff Sergeant William James Jeremy Rennerr), following a tip-off, walks to a bomb site in a heavy protective suit and tries to figure out how to pull apart clumsily tangled wires and flimsy triggering devices.

Although the wires looked flimsy, they carried five to seven kilovolts of charge not enough to seriously injure a bear, but enough to send it running.

The University's flimsy defences of a few wire fences and some wheelie bins had no chance.