Example sentences for: flimsy

How can you use “flimsy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Beneath a flimsy undergarment of professed remorse, she exposes a psyche built on blame-shifting, self-interest, and moral indifference.

  • Unmentioned in the Post was that Dwight Eisenhower used the same flimsy national-security excuse to build the interstate highway system.

  • It pulls a couple of amusing tricks with its narrative (the second act doesn't come until after the fourth, whereupon everything starts to--sort of--make sense), but this kind of flimsy romantic confection is either utterly charming or it collapses into a heavy slab of obviousness.

  • 9. Ignored on flimsy grounds that no such bill exists.

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”


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