Sample sentences for PLIABLE - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
a pliable individual

Definition

susceptible to being led or directed

or less commonly:

able to adjust readily to different conditions

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She wants everyone to be pliable and easy to control.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

pliable = easily led or directed

You'll find him not so pliable as you calculate upon...
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
She felt an immense need of some one to speak to, and she had never before seen any one who seemed so quick and pliable, so likely to understand everything.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

2 —as in:
a pliable material

Definition

capable of being bent (or perhaps shaped) without breaking

pliable = capable of being bent

Other Uses (with this meaning)

pliable = capable of being bent

pliable = capable of being bent or molded

pliable = capable of being bent

Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

pliable = capable of being bent without breaking

Then he tried the sinew again and found it pliable.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

pliable = capable of being bent

pliable = capable of being shaped without breaking

I need to climb as high as possible, but the branch I'm aiming for is short and looks pliable. I put my foot on it, testing its strength. It bends, but holds.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

pliable = capable of being bent without breaking

The problems were compliant, pliable; they yielded to my manipulations, forming into solutions, one after the other.
Tara Westover -- Educated

pliable = able to be shaped

Well, if they COULD not, it was not their fault: you cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Anne Bronte -- Agnes Grey

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