Sample Sentences for
resilient
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    They concluded that the space shuttle exploded because cold weather made its O-rings less resilient.
    resilient = able to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    As I passed the bed I stepped on something warm, resilient, and rather smooth.  (source)
    resilient = able to withstand strain
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    Harry left the tent to search the woods around them for the oldest, most gnarled, and resilient-looking tree he could find.  (source)
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    But it was a resilient spirit, and in the end Okonkwo overcame his sorrow.  (source)
    resilient = able to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    A week after the tornado of '54 had cut its path of death and destruction through Worcester, the air was filled with the sound of hammers, the smell of new timber, and a feeling of optimism and human resilience.  (source)
    resilience = ability to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it; but eventually the dust was forced to surrender to the mastery of the rain and it churned into a fine red mud that oozed between our toes and slopped against our ankles as we marched miserably to and from school.  (source)
    resiliency = ability to withstand strain
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    His cheeks were pink, soft to the touch, with the irresilient softness of age, like the skin of a peach that has been scalded.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irresilient means not and reverses the meaning of resilient. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    David listened to his father's dull, unresilient footfall cross the kitchen floor.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unresilient means not and reverses the meaning of resilient. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I just know that time heals all wounds, and that you're young and strong and resilient.  (source)
    resilient = able to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    I'm amazed by their resilience, by their hidden pockets of strength. [of Adam and Kim]  (source)
    resilience = ability to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike  (source)
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    She was, he thought, capable, strong, and resilient.  (source)
    resilient = able to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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    I believe in the power of human resilience.  (source)
    resilience = ability to withstand strain and/or quickly recover from it
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