Vocabulary Word
Word: pliable
Definition: flexible; easily influenced; yielding; adaptable
Definition: flexible; easily influenced; yielding; adaptable
Sentences Containing 'pliable'
While glass is in the soft, yielding, pliable state, it is molded into dishes, bottles, and other useful objects, such as lamp shades, globes, etc. -LRB- Fig.
The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very tractable and pliable.
The line originally used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly vapoured with tar, not impregnated with it, as in the case of ordinary ropes; for while tar, as ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable to the rope-maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient to the sailor for common ship use; yet, not only would the ordinary quantity too much stiffen the whale-line for the close coiling to which it must be subjected; but as most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in general by no means adds to the rope's durability or strength, however much it may give it compactness and gloss.
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