flimsily in a sentence
Examples
- The ballet raised eyebrows because the choreography required the men to wrestle in skimpy trunks and to dance erotically with flimsily clad women symbolizing Good and Evil.
- The 7-meter ( 23-foot ) wall of water smashed his flimsily built house, swept away his entire village and drowned his wife.
- The 10-meter ( 33-foot )-high wall of water smashed his flimsily built house, swept away his entire village and drowned his wife.
- The wave higher than the coconut trees it crashed into swept away three villages on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, turning flimsily built homes into matchsticks.
- According to author Joseph Goulden in " The Washington Times ", Pacepa's belated account " rests rather flimsily on circumstantial evidence and supposition ."
- The shell comprises multiple phosphatic laminae; the region closest to the edge of the shell was presumably more organic-walled than phosphatized as it tends to be more flimsily preservevd.
- Firemen and civil defense workers dug through the rubble of flimsily built homes searching for survivors, but Dumas Farid, a doctor at Manta hospital, said there was little hope of finding anyone alive.
- "New York Times " reviewer Michiko Kakutani writes of the characterizations : " [ B ] ecause these people are so flimsily delineated, their efforts to connect feel merely sentimental and contrived ."
- On Gale Drive, at the flimsily built complex with a tidy patch of front lawn, Ms . Jenkins gestured toward the back bachelor unit and asked, " Isn't it cute ?"
- Student temporary employees turned out to have copied, or flimsily rewritten, many articles from the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History, co-edited by Gates's Harvard colleague, Cornel West.