Sentence examples for made from flimsy from inspiring English sources

The houses were made from flimsy scraps of wood and tin.

Families live crowded in improvised shelters made from a frame of flimsy planks with plastic sheeting nailed to it to keep the weather out.

In later photographs, male cousins race around in flimsy home-made airplanes, boats made from rubber tyres, and cars.

The floor is muddy and flattened cardboard nailed to a flimsy frame made from tree branches serve as walls.

It is best that the brochure be made from quality paper that isn't too flimsy.

Behind him, for miles, stretched tents, lean-tos and little domes made from dried banana leaves, the same type of flimsy structures in which hundreds of thousands of people across eastern Congo now live.

Some Georgian terraces were made from bricks that contained ash and excrement and had floors so flimsy that dances were banned in case the roof beams gave way.

A garlic press made from a heavier material will usually be easier to press together than one made of a light, flimsy material.

Many of the plays had already appeared in quarto versions flimsy books made from sheets of paper folded twice to make four leaves.

Deco-like lamps are made of flimsy sheet metal.

Rather, it appeared to be the newer buildings, made of flimsy materials and put up by cowboy builders, that gave.