Sample Sentences for
plasticity
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    Teachers often point to children’s high plasticity when explaining why young kids can pick up new languages so quickly.
    plasticity = ability to be shaped or changed in a lasting way
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    Maranda manages well without the left half of her brain because of a phenomenon we call plasticity.†  (source)
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    I pull back, shocked by her cool plasticity.†  (source)
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    It possessed the sickish plasticity (at the back of her arms it was especially noticeable) of one who has suffered severe emaciation and whose flesh is even now in the last stages of being restored.†  (source)
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    Straggled out along the red clay road, they formed a column that ran from the base of the mountain, where the Third Squad had just begun the ascent, to the top of the mountain, where the First Squad moved plastically along a plateau and toward the west and toward the much higher mountains where the battle was being fought.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity.†  (source)
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    But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar molded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.†  (source)
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    To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted.†  (source)
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    And as, in the shaded light, she moved yearningly toward him, sheathed plastically in her gown of rich velvet, he would detach gently the round arms that clung about his neck, the firm curved body that stuck gluily to his.†  (source)
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    As soon as the wax had softened to the plasticity of dough she kneaded the pieces together.†  (source)
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    For her, teaching was its own exceeding great reward—her lyric music, her life, the world in which plastically she built to beauty what was good, the lord of her soul that gave her spirit life while he broke her body.†  (source)
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    That's why plasticity only works in children.†  (source)
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    It was another instance of the plasticity of his clay, of his capacity for being moulded by the pressure of environment.†  (source)
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