How to use "flimsy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "flimsy" in popular movie and book plots

  • While the two dumb brothers build flimsy homes of straw and sticks, Sandy constructs a state-of-the-art brick house.  - Muppet Classic Theater
  • Peter, who has cast off the hated coat, has become cold and ill in his flimsy tunic.  - Peter Pan in Scarlet
  • Sure enough, Asterix and Obelix free Minus and believe his flimsy cover story that he is a Gaul from Belgium.  - Asterix the Gaul (film)
  • The police and prosecutor used forced "dream" confessions, unreliable witnesses, and flimsy evidence to convict Williamson and Fritz.  - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
  • The club is eventually shut down on a flimsy pretext.  - The Lost City (2005 film)
  • A gambler, Paul Morra, shoulders his way into the judge's box and on a flimsy excuse, murders him.  - Frisco Kid
  • Beck tries an individual initiative, climbing to the roof on a flimsy external ladder, but is shot in the chest, although he survives.  - The Man on the Roof
  • The men blackmail Prince Hapi into releasing Monique using a prized but apparently flimsy "The Thinker" statue of the Prince.  - Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)
  • We then observe three fishermen landing a flimsy holed curragh in the force of the wind and the huge waves.  - Man of Aran
  • Although the script is actually a case of plagiarism, The Front Page in flimsy disguise, no one except Manheim seems to notice.  - What Makes Sammy Run?

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