toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

flexible
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • H. alpinum, he observed in his journal, furnishes long flexible roots, which taste sweet like the liquorice, and are much eaten in the spring by the natives, but become woody and lose their juiciness and crispness as the season advances.†   (source)
  • The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded.†   (source)
  • Her pies bad gluey, underdone fillings, and crusts that were tough but flexible, like beige kelp or huge leathery mushrooms.†   (source)
  • My foot sank into clear water and met the rubbery resistance of something flexible but solid.†   (source)
  • Designed by Da Vinci in 1495 as an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies, the internal mechanism of the robot knight possessed accurate joints and tendons, and was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing an anatomically correct jaw.†   (source)
  • So glad that you are so flexible.†   (source)
  • The flexible stems and shoots thrust aside by Sticky's fall were stiffening and spreading back into place.†   (source)
  • An overhead thermal sensor moved from one egg to the next, touching each with a flexible wand, beeping, then going on.†   (source)
  • There was a Baptist minister who "traveled" to the mortuary and performed the service in the mortuary's flexible chapel.†   (source)
  • The hours were flexible, good for a student.†   (source)
  • Make it bend-trees are flexible, so they don't snap.†   (source)
  • I want to see how flexible you are.†   (source)
  • I cleaned the solar panels thoroughly, then aimed a small, flexible lamp directly at them.†   (source)
  • Because it was Finland, a first-world country, they were well set up, very flexible.†   (source)
  • It is strong as steel, yet lighter and far more flexible, and of course utterly impervious to fire.†   (source)
  • It was a curious sort of bat, light and flexible, with a wide, flat curve at the tip.†   (source)
  • Cinder tensed, watching as he peered into the wire-filled cavity, fiddled with the flexible joints of the toes.†   (source)
  • The organization is flexible, very loose, and fragmentary.†   (source)
  • Let's see how long other commanders keep using their formations now that they've seen what a flexible strategy can do.†   (source)
  • It still looked flexible and soft, but definitely gold.†   (source)
  • Thank you for applying for your new Argentis FreedomCard, the credit card that allows you the flexibility and spending power to pursue your dreams and plan for the future.†   (source)
  • Getting out was almost a compulsive thing; the hotel was circled with the double track of Danny's Flexible Flyer.†   (source)
  • In college, you can sometimes pick your professors, as long as you're flexible with your schedule.†   (source)
  • "I planned on taking you to a party tomorrow night, but if you've made other plans, I'm flexible.†   (source)
  • They both had lean long haunches and flexible joints.†   (source)
  • Those saddles were used whenever speed and flexibility were important, though they weren't nearly as comfortable as the molded ones.†   (source)
  • The idea was that you didn't want to get muscle-bound; you wanted to be strong but have maximum flexibility.†   (source)
  • But then Ruth scored in the "very poor" range for flexibility.†   (source)
  • As she grew younger it became easier to explain away the changes that appeared-to have occurred overnight-the old elm out front gone, the new apartment building on the corner where M. Nesbitt used to live in a colonial-era home, the absence of her friends-and Sol began to see as never before the flexibility of children.†   (source)
  • It hadn't occurred to Boggess to ask Big Mike to throw anything else until he saw him chucking these footballs and realized he was not merely huge and strong, but flexible and long-armed.†   (source)
  • Natalia then sent a message, with the B&B's rates, which, she noted, were flexible if she wanted to stay during the week.†   (source)
  • We're making bucks here-Kongbucks and yenand we can be flexible on pay and bennies.†   (source)
  • The flexible terms of employment in the fast food industry also attracted housewives who needed extra income.†   (source)
  • And it's not flexible!†   (source)
  • I thought that when tradition becomes too flexible, irony enters the voice.†   (source)
  • We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible.†   (source)
  • It was clear then that the staff would not only have to work extremely hard, and be at their most alert, they would also have to be unusually flexible.†   (source)
  • We try to be flexible, but we still have rules.†   (source)
  • Alison, a freelance writer whose schedule is more flexible than mine, supports and appreciates what I'm doing with Nathaniel, but both of us are overwhelmed with busy schedules, and she keeps getting stuck with more of the burdens at home because I routinely break promises to be home earlier.†   (source)
  • The fence towers over us, too high and flexible to climb over, too sturdy to knock down.†   (source)
  • Bo-Bo was gently positioned on an "egg crate," a soft, flexible pad covering the operating table, and was covered with a pale green sheet.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that the Volturi were the flexible ones in this equation?†   (source)
  • This requires value flexibility, and the value shift is usually accompanied by some loss of gumption, but it's a sacrifice that must be made.†   (source)
  • Kabuo's father showed him how to hold the wooden sword so that the wrists were flexible and liberated.†   (source)
  • But Christian, the little boy in the hall, made an eloquent argument for adding flexibility to the normas.†   (source)
  • She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†   (source)
  • The helmet was made of soft, flexible plastic.†   (source)
  • Hong was concerned for her boss, who had been understanding about her poor English and who let her keep flexible hours to accommodate her schedule as a student.†   (source)
  • He watches the sun burn the mists from the fields and despite the heat the beans are thick and green and flexible in the breeze.†   (source)
  • Kristy had been in touch as well, calling to extend invitations to come over and sunbathe, or go to parties (she knew I was grounded, but like "free time" for my mother, this was clearly a flexible term for her), or just to talk about her new boyfriend.†   (source)
  • He yanked off his flexible rubber arm and waved it overhead like a giant bug antenna.†   (source)
  • For some reason the ankle hinges were not flexible enough to fit into a boot.†   (source)
  • It comprises an extraordinarily powerful and flexible set of tools that can reliably assess a thicket of information to determine the effect of any one factor, or even the whole effect.†   (source)
  • Amaranta Ursula defended herself sincerely with the astuteness of a wise woman, weaseling her slippery, flexible, and fragrant weasel's body as she tried to knee him in the kidneys and scorpion his face with her nails, but without either of them giving a gasp that might not have been taken for that breathing of a person watching the meager April sunset through the open window.†   (source)
  • The job required lots of flexibility and lots of cash.†   (source)
  • "I've known a good many sporting girls and I've always wondered why they didn't price more flexible.†   (source)
  • Any movement needs to be flexible; it should be relentlessly empirical and open to different strategies in different places.†   (source)
  • Actually, I am flexible on all points but the small fortune.†   (source)
  • They can give you some flexibility even from there.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†   (source)
  • A balloon was flexible, could expand and contract easily, and cost almost nothing.†   (source)
  • On a good night or weekend afternoon maybe two hundred boys and girls would be flashing down the hill in stocking caps on their Flexible Flyers.†   (source)
  • I supposed I could get the eucalyptus tomorrow, but I was going to need it knotted into a rope as part of the spell I planned to cast, and …. well …. it was probably smart that I practiced so I didn't drop anything during the spell or, worse, suddenly discover that eucalyptus wasn't as flexible as I'd expected and it fell to pieces when I tried to knot it and then I'd turn bright red and want to crawl under the rec hall and curl up in a fetal position crying ….†   (source)
  • But then the vampire smiled almost wistfully, and the smooth white substance of his face moved with the infinitely flexible but minimal lines of a cartoon.†   (source)
  • She had a flexible schedule at the newspaper, and whenever she could she arrived at the big house on the corner with her brother Miguel.†   (source)
  • So when they talk to you at your assessment at Lor-ton, be flexible that six months is what you really need.†   (source)
  • The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.†   (source)
  • His mistress, who had a flexible schedule, accompanied him on all speaking engagements, real and imagined.†   (source)
  • This is an innovative range of products designed to combine flexibility and security with the powerful performance associated with Sacrum.†   (source)
  • This is the flexibility the rules contemplate.†   (source)
  • Pardon me, sir, but I thoughtThe plan must be flexible, Fortier said.†   (source)
  • "I'm flexible."†   (source)
  • The instructions were clear, if flexible.†   (source)
  • I can be flexible.†   (source)
  • Nature had seemed more flexible.†   (source)
  • But increasingly we share a common agenda and common objectives: completion of the Single Market and structural economic reform; better conditions for growth and jobs in Europe; successful enlargement; a united and coherent foreign policy voice for Europe; a more effective fight against crime, drugs, illegal immigration and environmental damage; flexible, open and accountable European institutions.†   (source)
  • Prioritize the following strategic components according to their importance in the scenario described above: Position, Resources, Initiative, Flexibility, Information Max sighed and glanced out the window; a number of older students were throwing Frisbees that bucked in the lingering gusts from the previous day's storm.†   (source)
  • Even though I was young, I understood and appreciated the flexibility that homeschooling provided.†   (source)
  • Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky.†   (source)
  • We can't go by rigid principles, we've got to be flexible, we've got to adjust to the reality of the day and act on the expediency of the moment.†   (source)
  • I was looking down the barrel of a huge, flexible, living pipeline.†   (source)
  • The boy swung around and slammed against the streetcar in the fashion of a flexible whip, but he hung on.†   (source)
  • She worked now at a hamburger joint, he said; both of them had left the restaurant, but his own schedule was more flexible.†   (source)
  • There must be a flexible power over elections.†   (source)
  • He was flexible and cunning enough to realize that some foes could not be defeated with force alone.†   (source)
  • Her long arms and slender hands caught the subtle accents of the music perfectly, and the flexibility and strength in her legs reflected the hard work and dedication required of a dancer.†   (source)
  • When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum, a flexible logic—"High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod.†   (source)
  • She was like a fine sword, slender and flexible, but steel; a woman of courage.†   (source)
  • The hundred years since the time of Disney had still left much undone in this most flexible of all mediums.†   (source)
  • Your youth, I suppose, that wonderful flexibility of your age that allows you to be beguiled by, rather than devoured by, this octopus of a city.†   (source)
  • It is true that we have launched our Bicentennial celebration without having achieved human perfection, but we have attained a very remarkable self-governed society that possesses the flexibility and the dynamism to grow and undertake an entirely new agenda, an agenda for America's third century.†   (source)
  • And there on the sand, like a giant lizard, or a flexible crocodile, or a serpent with legs, huge and horrible and humpy, lay the dragon.†   (source)
  • Though this entailed a broken rule, the woman in charge of the films was very flexible.†   (source)
  • He loves me as much as he hates me, and he's young, flexible.†   (source)
  • Her body was flexible like that of a jaguar and like the bow of a hunter; he who had learned from her how to make love, was knowledgeable of many forms of lust, many secrets.†   (source)
  • His voice is remarkably fine, resonant and flexible, and he takes great pride in it.†   (source)
  • The two-party system remains not because both are rigid but because both are flexible.†   (source)
  • We required a plan which was flexible and which permitted us to act in accordance with the needs of the times; above all, the plan had to be one which recognized civil war as the last resort, and left the decision on this question to the future.†   (source)
  • it is almost as flexible and soft as satin;   (source)
  • conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself to a great variety of circumstances.   (source)
  • He thought of pushing his hand through that smile and encountering nothing but flexible darkness.†   (source)
  • It was rectangular, flexible, and a little heavy.†   (source)
  • Unlike my faceplate, the suit's material is flexible.†   (source)
  • "They're very flexible," she said, "and they'll spring on you …. zwing, and they're gone."†   (source)
  • Your mind is empty, you have a "hollow-flexible" attitude of "beginner's mind."†   (source)
  • It was one of the world's most prestigious, and flexible.†   (source)
  • When he pulled, the flexible rubber hose came flopping toward him like a flimsy snake.†   (source)
  • I have some flexible plastic tubing intended for minor water re-claimer repairs.†   (source)
  • Then I got a medium flexible sample container ("Ziploc bag") and tried to seal the RTG in it.†   (source)
  • If I didn't, my bedroom would become a big hamster ball because Hab canvas is flexible.†   (source)
  • Your spider silk would be the perfect material—soft and flexible, yet hard as steel.†   (source)
  • It was a cop's body, and had to be strong, resilient, flexible.†   (source)
  • Horn isn't flexible or springy enough to make a bow.†   (source)
  • A woman looked at a display model of a polyurethane sheath with flexible rings at either end.†   (source)
  • There were hands over her eyes: Simon's hands, slim and flexible.†   (source)
  • I could still feel my shield like a strong, flexible sheet around Renesmee and me.†   (source)
  • It might have been art-a flexible term, in my opinion-but it was disgusting.†   (source)
  • My definition of crazy has become pretty flexible in the past few months.†   (source)
  • "Really, I trained my mind to be flexible," Deo said.†   (source)
  • In times of war, some rules have to be flexible.†   (source)
  • At a time like this, we've got to be flexible above all.†   (source)
  • I'm a chameleon, designed to fit a flexible mold.†   (source)
  • Amir's more flexible than Barry, who forgot about you guys as soon as we landed.†   (source)
  • We trade off favors frequently, usually in the narcotics area, but we're all flexible.†   (source)
  • We're not stubborn, theoretical dogmatists-we're flexible.†   (source)
  • It was a belt canteen of flexible synthetic divided into half-litre pockets.†   (source)
  • The flexible gold straps left black insignia.†   (source)
  • At the threshold, he carefully laid the canister on its side and slid the flexible rubber tube beneath the door.†   (source)
  • Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.†   (source)
  • She grabbed frantically at her neck, trying to pull the lashing, flexible limb away from her windpipe.†   (source)
  • No matter how hard he pushed, his fingers encountered nothing but what seemed to be solid and flexible air.†   (source)
  • Harry walked closer to him and the wizard held up a long golden rod, thin and flexible as a car aerial, and passed it up and down Harrys front and back.†   (source)
  • Something had sprung up behind Dr. Thorn—like a catapult, but more flexible … almost like a tail.†   (source)
  • Interestingly, this technique can only be used in infants under 18 months when the brain is still developing and is flexible enough to recover from such a shock.†   (source)
  • Petra was not Carn Carby; she had more flexible patterns and responded much more quickly to Ender's darting, improvised, unpredictable attack.†   (source)
  • "A flexible personality," she says, "would probably have aptitude for more than one faction, don't you agree, Ms.†   (source)
  • Springy and flexible.†   (source)
  • So tough was their hide that ordinarily they didn't have to wear clothing, except for short pants made of carchineal, a flexible red metal unknown on Earth.†   (source)
  • "Your defenses," said Snape, a little louder, "must therefore be as flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo.†   (source)
  • It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that's the only ratlike part-incredibly long and flexible.†   (source)
  • As Dan describes it, the faculty were ill-trained for lifting anything; even the athletic types were neither as strong nor as flexible as Young basketball players—and they should have considered something basic to their task: it is much easier to carry something heavy and awkward upstairs than it is to lug it down.†   (source)
  • They are considerably less flexible in their mental make-up than other animals that are commonly trained in circuses and zoos—sea lions and chimpanzees, for example.†   (source)
  • And Harry was protesting that he could not give Cho his Firebolt, because Umbridge had it, and anyway the whole thing was ridiculous, he'd only come to the DA room to put up some Christmas baubles shaped like Dobby's head… The dream changed… His body felt smooth, powerful and flexible.†   (source)
  • She has to find a flexible job that will not interfere with her schoolwork, the clubs we agreed upon or her grades.†   (source)
  • It had taken a few weeks to get used to sleeping with her wrist monitors—she'd scratched her face one night, and cracked her right screen another—but Circle engineers had improved the design, replacing the rigid screens with more flexible, unbreakable ones, and now she felt incomplete without them.†   (source)
  • 62-mm bullets; the design is so flexible that it can be used as the basis for a coaxial machine gun in armored vehicles and helicopters, and a light, man-carried squad-level weapon.†   (source)
  • All the talk at Fort Benjamin Harrison told him that Fort Huachuca was a fortunate place to be; he'd be working in the Adjutant's Office of the Strategic Communications Command—he'd been told that the major general who was in charge was "flexible" on the subject of reassignments; the major general had been known to assist his junior officers with their requests for transfers.†   (source)
  • Calling any of these flavors "natural" requires a flexible attitude toward the English language and a fair amount of irony.†   (source)
  • Partly because of Ender's influence, they were the most flexible of armies, responding relatively quickly to new situations.†   (source)
  • You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others.†   (source)
  • She taps a microphone that is projecting from a communications panel at the end of a flexible gooseneck-the same mike that the en was speaking into.†   (source)
  • It is a living wall of light, like a flexible, flat-screened television set, and it's not showing anything at all.†   (source)
  • "More specifically," Jeanine says, and this time she does smile at me, broadly, forcing creases into her cheeks, "someone with many, strong mirror neurons could have a flexible personality—capable of mimicking others as the situation calls for it rather than remaining constant."†   (source)
  • Finally, the raft is free and flexible once again, bobbing and waving back toward equilibrium, and where the trawler was, there's nothing but a bubbling whirlpool that occasionally vomits up a loose piece of floating debris.†   (source)
  • The aerodynamic cowling is totally flexible, calculates its own most efficient shape for the current speed and wind conditions, changes its curves accordingly, wraps around you like a nymphomaniacal gymnast.†   (source)
  • The dome of the Hab is mostly supported by air pressure, but there are flexible reinforcing poles across the inside to hold up the canvas.†   (source)
  • The suitcase has a noteworthy attachment: a flexible threeinch. thick cable or hose or something, a couple of meters long, that emerges from one corner, runs up the sloping floor of the life raft, over the edge, and trails in the water.†   (source)
  • The Hab is normally a dome, with flexible support poles maintaining the arch and rigid, folding floor material to keep its base flat.†   (source)
  • He was feeling buoyant, flexible.†   (source)
  • "I'm not very flexible," I said.†   (source)
  • Very flexible, lots of applications.†   (source)
  • Repelled at first by the thought of drinking dirty water or eating a muddy sweet potato, he had told himself he had to be flexible.†   (source)
  • On average, the fur was a quarter-inch long-a smooth, flexible armor that mirrored the shape and movement of the underlying muscles-but on his ankles and the undersides of his forearms, it extended a full two inches, and between his shoulder blades, there was a ruffled mane that stuck out a handsbreadth from his body and tapered down along his back to the base of his spine.†   (source)
  • You must pay close attention to the patterns and rhythms of your opponents' bodies: where they are strong, where they are weak, where stiff and where flexible.†   (source)
  • He was swinging upside down off the starboard rail, using his massive strength and his flexible feet to hang on while he untangled some broken oars.†   (source)
  • The dog he had grown up with, the dog who had pulled a yelling, gleeful five-year-old Brett patiently around and around the dooryard on his Flexible Flyer, budded into a harness Joe had made in the shop, the dog who had been waiting calmly by the mailbox every afternoon during school for the bus, come shine or shower … that dog bore only the slightest resemblance to the muddy, matted apparition slowly materializing from the morning mist.†   (source)
  • Her fear of heights made the whole business sickening, despite the flexible cord tied around her waist that was supposed to keep her from hitting the floor if she fell.†   (source)
  • Up close she could see that the material was not stretchy but stiff, a thin leather pounded very flat until it became flexible.†   (source)
  • By almost all of our measures of flexible thinking and problem solving, we had statistically significant differences.†   (source)
  • For all that Jocelyn looked like her daughter, her thin long hands, flexible and delicate, were Sebastian's.†   (source)
  • Because of my school schedule— one night class, flexible daytime seminar hours, and several independent studies—I came and went as I pleased, with little or no questioning, so neither of them really noticed that I wasn't sleeping.†   (source)
  • But Aaron, whose schedule was flexible due to a recent expulsion, claimed he hadn't seen her, so I settled in to wait.†   (source)
  • Not all family, but if there was one thing I'd learned over these last few months, it was that this was a flexible definition.†   (source)
  • Aviva may be the one modern Hebrew name that is ready to break out: it's easy to pronounce, pretty, peppy, and suitably flexible.†   (source)
  • The years since have been spent in many foreign countries promoting the interests of the great Soviet revolution, an undercover commissar with a flexible portfolio that called for many trips back here to Moscow and extensive research into the specific departments in which each of you holds a responsible position.†   (source)
  • Flexible in that they had to be effective whether they were fighting together as a regiment or as a number of small teams.†   (source)
  • It's perfect-smooth, flawless, cool to the touch, and the point is so massive that it's as flexible as a whip.†   (source)
  • She flicked her wrist to the side and the whip curled around the demon's tongue, roping it with bands of flexible electrum.†   (source)
  • She slung her legs around his hips—she was amazingly flexible—and slid forward until she could brush her lips against his.†   (source)
  • Soon, with an inflexible mind, and often even with the most flexible mind, this immortality becomes a penitential sentence in a madhouse of figures and forms that are hopelessly unintelligible and without value.†   (source)
  • Flexible Flyer.†   (source)
  • He drove me to a half-dozen state schools and helped me find the one that combined flexible admission dates, scholarship money, and a relatively low percentage of zombies in the student population.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Rhunon, "but if we melt it too quickly, the metal will not combine with the charcoal and become hard and flexible enough for a sword.†   (source)
  • He watched Saphira as she worked her crimson tongue around the flexible cuticle at the base of each of her talons.†   (source)
  • Everything underneath the flexible iron shield was suddenly a part of me—I could feel the life force of everything it covered like points of bright heat, dazzling sparks of light surrounding me.†   (source)
  • As rigid as she could seem about team rules and the like, she favored a flexible, unregimented approach to the game itself.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bacon tapped on the face of his watch—with his flexible prosthetic finger—to show that he meant business.†   (source)
  • The job was good for her because it put her in contact with other people and because it had the virtue of fairly flexible hours.†   (source)
  • Blitzen whipped off his bow tie—which, like his entire line of spring fashion, was lined with ultra-flexible chain mail.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)