Sample Sentences for
inflexible
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    The inflexible rules meant that even a child who was gaining ground, was counted as a school's failure if she was below grade level.
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    "It is linked to another process," she said, "by which the mind too, becomes inflexible."  (source)
    inflexible = not flexible (not adaptable)
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    "Since I survived that year," he always said, "I shall survive anything." He put it down to his inflexible will.  (source)
    inflexible = unbending (very strong)
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    [regarding attendance at The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session club meetings] As we drifted on through the summer, with this one inflexible appointment every day—classes could be cut, meals missed, chapel skipped—I noticed something about Finny's own mind, which was such an opposite from mine. ... I noticed that he did abide by certain rules, which he seemed to cast in the form of Commandments.  (source)
    inflexible = not bendable or adaptable
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    The early climbers established paths that were on firm ground with an accessibility that appealed to all, but today the Western routes are all but closed because of dogmatic inflexibility in the face of change.†  (source)
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    Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.  (source)
    inflexibly = unbendingly
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    They argue about what we ought to annex. The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal-areas of France, and a slice of Russia. He produces reasons why we must have them and is quite inflexible until at last the others give in to him.  (source)
    inflexible = not willing to give in to others' desires
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    What Huck rejects is not religion but an attitude of self-righteousness and inflexibility.†  (source)
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    Mr. Phillips might not be a very good teacher; but a pupil so inflexibly determined on learning as Anne was could hardly escape making progress under any kind of teacher.†  (source)
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    A party of Indians—in their savage finery ... stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain.  (source)
    inflexible = uncompromising (unbending)
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    Henchard paused a moment, threw himself back so that his elbow rested on the table, his forehead being shaded by his hand, which, however, did not hide the marks of introspective inflexibility on his features as he narrated in fullest detail the incidents of the transaction with the sailor.†  (source)
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    When two ships are on a collision course, and the men at the wheel inflexibly hold to that course, there is going to be a collision.†  (source)
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    "Yes," he said quietly," nine and a half inches…. inflexible… rosewood…. and containing…."  (source)
    inflexible = not easily bent
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