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How to use the word flimsy in a Sentence?

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There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses.

David Shear

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The United States, unlike most countries which have electronic systems in place, is basing its vaccination on a flimsy paper card.

Benjamin Mason Meier

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own, that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. Our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out.

Nicholas Wade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are confident Gov. Snyder will be fully exonerated if this flimsy case goes to trial.

Prosecutor Worthy

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

These unjustified allegations do nothing to resolve a painful chapter in the history of our state, we are confident Gov. Snyder will be fully exonerated if this flimsy case goes to trial.

Brian Lennon

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're not powerless. We don't have to wait for a vaccine, although I think we're going to be successful sooner than many people think. We have the most powerful weapon in our hands right now, I mean it's an enormously powerful weapon. It's just a simple, flimsy mask, this virus can be defeated if people just wear a mask.

Robert Redfield

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's not conjecture, it's not some flimsy theory, this is what is going to happen.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

After last night’s pathetic interview by Danny O’Connor, Democrats ’ talking points disavowing Nancy Pelosi for speaker are as flimsy as the paper they’re written on, once you get them beyond a noun, a verb and' new leadership,' they fold like a cheap suit.

National Republican Congressional Committee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The story of bluestones transported by the vast Irish Sea Glacier is every bit as wonderful as the archetypal myth of Neolithic Argonauts struggling to move heavy stones with the aid of crude tools, heavy sledges and flimsy rafts.

Dr John

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When flimsy cyber defense fails, Format Preserving Encryption prevails

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

When we spotted flimsy rafts and boats with our searchlight in the pitch dark, my heart always skipped a beat, she said. We could see through binoculars that rubber rafts were bowing under the weight of so many people. Hundreds of eyes looking back at us — stunned and panicked, but hopeful they’d be rescued. [D]rowning isn’t the only cause of death.

Janelle Eli

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's inevitable that some members of the cabinet would have to resign if they're browbeaten into supporting a deal that is honestly this flimsy.

Steve Baker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have these wonderful luxurious tourist destinations, but then there's half the population that's living in different degrees of poverty, a lot of these homes, especially in the rural areas, are made of flimsy materials. With the wind being so strong and then there being so much rain ... many of these families will probably be losing everything.

Anthony Perez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Instead of using our guy's record to prosecute a case against him, they put all their eggs in a flimsy guilt-by-association attack that failed miserably, even in this strongly populist district, there were some ads where they spent 26 seconds talking about the Kochs and four seconds on Jenkins, which was fine by me.

Andy Sere

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hours after the investigators were at the facility, they noticed a flimsy-looking wall and a faint smell of marijuana, they couldn’t get to what was behind that wall until another search warrant was executed.

Christina Carrega

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The devices can help control excessive motion in the foot, the shoe should be the correct size for the child and not too flimsy from toe to heel.

Alan MacGill

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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