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Sentences with pliable

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  • As your baby grows bigger, his bones become less pliable.
  • If we go on expecting our daughters to be decorative and pliable and empty-headed, they'll be inadequately prepared for the future.
  • Pliable, pliant both imply capability of being easily bent, suggesting the suppleness of a wooden switch and, figuratively, a yielding nature or adaptability; , plastic is used of substances, such as plaster or clay, that can be molded into various forms which are retained upon hardening, and figuratively suggests an impressionable quality; , ductile literally and figuratively suggests that which can be finely drawn or stretched out [copper is a ductile metal]; malleable literally or figuratively suggests that which can be hammered, beaten, or pressed into various forms [copper is malleable as well as ductile]
  • pliable leather.
  • The pliable mind of youth.
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