Sample Sentences forflexible (editor-reviewed)
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The job has flexible working hours.flexible = adaptable to different conditions
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I touched the baby's shoulder blades, felt how tiny and flexible they were. (source)flexible = bendable
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She experiments, creating a text that is as succinct and flexible as poetry, snapping sentences into fragments so that the reader pauses, making each sentence serve her and not the other way round, abandoning quotation marks to streamline the typography and make the page as simple and readable as possible. (source)flexible = adaptable in the sense that the rules are adjusted for different conditions
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Each one of his folk was clad in a hauberk of steel mail that hung to his knees, and his legs were covered with hose of a fine and flexible metal mesh, the secret of whose making was possessed by Dain's people. (source)flexible = bending easily and repeatedly (in different directions in response to changing conditions)
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But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. (source)flexibility = ability to adjust
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It was a big sled, light, polished wood with barely used metal runners and the words FLEXIBLE FLYER painted on it. (source)FLEXIBLE = bendable (The brand name of the sled indicates that it has some give rather than being entirely rigid.)
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The organization is flexible, very loose, and fragmentary.† (source)
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This is the flexibility the rules contemplate.† (source)
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The spare form flexibly acquiesced, but inertly.† (source)
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These have a narrow flexible rubber sole with treads though.† (source)
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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)
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Just the same, the principle that a ruler's great freedom and great responsibility make possible great wisdom, an ability to act flexibly, moment by moment, not on a basis of hard and fast principles but on a basis of action and intuitive reaction—is worth thinking about.† (source)
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It is strong as steel, yet lighter and far more flexible, and of course utterly impervious to fire.† (source)
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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)
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Long ago the heap of coins had become too large for the iron pot to hold them, and he had made for them two thick leather bags, which wasted no room in their resting-place, but lent themselves flexibly to every corner.† (source)
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I cleaned the solar panels thoroughly, then aimed a small, flexible lamp directly at them.† (source)
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