pliablein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
pliable as in: a pliable individual
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They have been more pliable in their negotiations since the elections.
pliable = willing to compromise
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She wants to put someone in charge who is pliable and easily controlled.pliable = easily led or directed
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You'll find him not so pliable as you calculate upon...† (source)
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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.† (source)
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She wants everyone to be pliable and easy to control. (source)pliable = easily led or directed
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Considering her appearance — her lucent skin, her look of pliability, her long ballerina's neck — people expected her to be graceful.† (source)
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It made her feel weak and pliable. (source)
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The pliability of the sofa cushions felt all wrong; far more comfortable than twigs gouging his side and bugs biting, but in the forest he and the dogs had slept touching one another—if any of them moved, the others knew it at once.† (source)
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He'd told me a handful of vague stories about one girl who'd been so pliable he could hardly stand her and another who had tried to manipulate the process at every turn. (source)
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Her body had a softness, a pliability, and a great warmth.† (source)
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The recommendation was simple: get a pliable psychiatrist who would admit Salander to the children's psychiatric clinic. (source)
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She was smaller and thinner than Lily Bart, with a restless pliability of pose, as if she could have been crumpled up and run through a ring, like the sinuous draperies she affected.† (source)
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She’s soft. Pliable. Gullible. (source)
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One afternoon in January, Mrs. Fairfax had begged a holiday for Adele, because she had a cold; and, as Adele seconded the request with an ardour that reminded me how precious occasional holidays had been to me in my own childhood, I accorded it, deeming that I did well in showing pliability on the point.† (source)
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pliable as in: a pliable material
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The wax is more pliable when it's warmer.
pliable = capable of being bent
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The dough becomes more pliable as you work it.pliable = capable of being bent and shaped
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They soaked the leather to make it pliable.pliable = capable of being bent or molded
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They treat PVC with phthalates to make it more pliable.pliable = capable of being bent
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Well, if they COULD not, it was not their fault: you cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.† (source)
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He appeared disposed to add more, but indignation choked his utterance, so he lifted up one of his very pliable legs, and, flourishing it above his head a little, to insure his aim, administered a good sound kick...† (source)
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Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration. (source)Pliable = capable of being bent without breaking
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The problems were compliant, pliable; they yielded to my manipulations, forming into solutions, one after the other. (source)pliable = able to be shaped
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One of us must cross through the entryway every so often. This keeps it pliable, you see. The ingress point is a bit like a hole in fresh dough; if you don't poke a finger into it now and then the thing may just close up on its own. (source)pliable = bendable
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With a sharp-edged stone he scraped away every trace of fat and flesh from the skin, washed it in the creek, and for days, in his spare hours, rubbed and stretched it to make it soft and pliable. (source)
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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. (source)pliable = capable of being bent without breaking
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I think of it as tough but pliable now, like a well-worn glove. (source)pliable = easily bent
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In Alan's room, as big as a formal dining room, one of the thin, pliable mattresses that had been hiding the rifles was now set up on the floor, covered neatly with a sheet and wool blanket. (source)pliable = soft
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His spongy skin, pliable limbs, dark fringed lashes—even his sighs make me think (how could they not?) of Maisie. (source)pliable = easily bent
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