Sample Sentences for
pliant
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  • She is too pliant in the face of pressure, agreeing to things she knows are wrong.
    pliant = easily influenced or controlled
  • But you're far easier to control than Amos—children, particularly male children, are so naturally pliant, aren't they?  (source)
  • Flexing her fingers, Tally found that the gloves were soft and pliant, the palms worn pale from years of use.  (source)
    pliant = bendy or flexible
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  • I knew I needed a pliant friend for my plan, someone I could load up with awful stories about Nick, someone who would become overly attached to me, someone who'd be easy to manipulate, who wouldn't think too hard about anything I said because she felt privileged to hear it.  (source)
    pliant = easily influenced or controlled
  • Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behavior at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgement too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.†  (source)
  • Danny came pliantly enough, but he did not hug her back.†  (source)
  • So that the sentences are pliant as branches and can be read in more ways than one.  (source)
    pliant = flexible or adaptable
  • What power in pliancy!†  (source)
  • She trembled in his irresistible bear hug, as pliantly feeble with relief as the stalk of a flower.†  (source)
  • Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.  (source)
    pliant = easily directed
  • The men needed pliancy in their women friends, and she couldn't bring herself to act coy or silly for their sakes.†  (source)
  • The mattress, explained a card next to the bed, was organic, made not with springs or foam but instead a new fiber that Mae found was both firmer and more pliant—superior to any bed she'd ever known.  (source)
    pliant = soft, yielding, or easily bent
  • Had she lacked patience, pliancy and dissimulation?†  (source)
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