Sentence examples for not a flimsy from inspiring English sources

If it comes, he added, military action would have to be based on credible evidence of Iraq's obstruction, and not a "flimsy" excuse to go to war.

You want a solid burr grinder that crushes the beans into consistently sized particles, not a flimsy blade grinder that chops some into fine powder and some into coarse chunks.

When its architects, Peddle Thorp, were sought to design a headquarters for Custom Credit on St Kilda Road, the commission specifically referred to "a dignified building … not a flimsy glass box … something to reflect the stability of the credit system".

If you give players the lightest cleat (but not a flimsy cleat!) on the field then you'll have helped them immensely.

We at WWO think of the kids we support as our children and that is not a flimsy claim.

Be sure to buy a good quality, heavy weight, 100% cotton T-shirt and not a flimsy 50% Poly blend shirt.

No wonder some argue for Kosovo to be rebuilt under a colonial government, not as a flimsy democracy nor even as a tactfully managed protectorate.

In 1982, before Dan Richards was born, his father spent several months living in a tiny wooden hut – not unlike a flimsy garden shed – near Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost civilian functional settlement, on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago halfway between continental Norway and the north pole.

This is the same Fed which, over the past century, has debased the dollar to such a degree that it's now worth only 5% of its initial real purchasing power in 1913 (whereas the dollar in 1913 was approximately as valuable as it was in 1813, because it was anchored by the gold standard, not by a flimsy Fed standard).

Nonstick makes it easier, but it has to be a heavy nonstick pan, not a cheap, flimsy one.

I don't mean a flimsy P.R.-speak apology — I mean a heartfelt one that seems fully cooked.