Sentence examples for in a flimsy from inspiring English sources

But at last it drops, in a flimsy, floppy, flaccid wisp, in mid-air.

Ms. Li and Mr. Wang now live in a flimsy wooden hut with a dirt floor.

She is 110 feet above the surf, dressed in a flimsy sweatshirt and black slacks.

Everybody digs his machine, but you "can tell we're in a flimsy fantasy" (Mitchell).

Despite the attention Alexander's machine draws, we can tell we're in a flimsy fantasy.

Of Fanny Burney's writings she claimed they were responsible for beginning "a new era in a flimsy kind of writing".

This is the way Moxley's 1975 murder is depicted in "Dominick Dunne Presents: Murder in Greenwich," a flimsy, surface-skimming, class-conscious crime drama that has its premiere tonight on USA.

Once they have passed through a scanner in a flimsy-looking prefab building, visitors proceed at their own pace.

His earliest biographer, Darrell Garwood, noted that Wood "thought it a form of borrowed pretentiousness, a structural absurdity, to put a Gothic-style window in such a flimsy frame house".

In offering a flimsy pretext for her withdrawal, Naomi was simply donning yet another mask rather than owning up to the truth: she knew she'd be utterly crushed in an open exchange over her venomous and ridiculous charge that Israel seeks to exterminate the Palestinians.

In class, one student, Victorine Floyd-Fludd, recalled a childhood memory in which she rode a flimsy raft in the ocean that then flipped over.