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.

  • A Herald editorial said, "The argument that his hair implant needs more time to take root was not only legally flimsy but also highly unbecoming for his rugged martial profession and his tough guy image."

  • 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.”

  • Late the following year an immense hurricane sent a tidal wave over Hog Island (today Paradise Island), smashing Nassau’s flimsy buildings and ruining crops.


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