Sentence examples for only a flimsy from inspiring English sources

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History provides only a flimsy guide.

Terrorist groups had already struck U.N. facilities in the city several times, but the base was protected by only a flimsy metal gate.

While I've travelled business class before, I've never flown without the nagging knowledge that only a flimsy curtain separates you and your champagne from the huddled masses.

Many a reporter with only a flimsy grasp of the programme book was struck dumb thereby and many an interview brought to a rapid conclusion.

While McAslan's scheme is an improvement on previous proposals, it does not go far enough: it will leave only a flimsy skin of heritage, a picturesque skirt of Victoriana around the base of yet another slab of generic commercial development.

How the shoeless lady got across the border to Queen Mary Hospital, I will never know but there she was, eight-months pregnant, dripping amniotic fluid, wearing only a flimsy hospital gown, suffering painful contractions, yet looking deliriously happy as she muttered over and over that she "made it".

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We hurtled across this large expanse of water at a speed that made me just a little nervous, with only a flimsy-looking rail between us and the icy Baltic 250m below.

The edenic vibe is broken only by a flimsy badminton net strung in the backyard.

At first they offered no facial protection; later the nose and jaw were covered only by a flimsy piece of perspex.

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

Once in the tiny tailor's shop, equipped only with a flimsy, very public bamboo screen for changing, I tried to give Rhee some privacy.

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