Sentence examples for flimsy with from inspiring English sources

The trouble is, Sayonara and her kind are wind-driven surfboards: unstable, flimsy, with accelerations that cause gear to fail and that incapacitate crewmen.

A dainty mobile done by Alexander Calder looked worryingly flimsy with its slender sticks hanging down from strings that swayed all too easily.

But these days footwear is flimsy, with plastic parts, or fragile, with a thin, elegant sole, delicate stitching, and glossy leather that aren't made to last.

I ask only because I had a free half hour the other day and quite fancied a quick retail hit, but was thwarted by the fact that every dress on the shop floor was from the chasing-butterflies school of summer dressing – pale, floral, flimsy, with ruffles and ribbons just asking to trail prettily on a light breeze.

"I don't want to be flimsy with the team shape," he added.

It was a time capsule, flimsy, with an ugly interior, but beautiful in its Airstream way.

And both shows rise above a woefully flimsy format with good writing and exceptionally good casts.

Some had pricked their fingers to stamp Yes on the flimsy ballots with their own blood.

I held his flimsy fingers with unaccustomed care, suddenly fearful that I might hurt him.

On Aug. 17 The Post ran a flimsy article with a big Page 1 headline that said "Hevesi Bribe Claim".

I followed warily, clutching the flimsy frame with one hand, my pruners and plastic bags in the other.