pliant in English
pliant willow stems
Use "pliant" in a sentence
1. She lay pliant in his arms.
2. Pliant judges have been a problem in the past.
3. I don't think it's a good thing for children to be too pliant.
4. 9 synonyms for Adaptive: adaptable, adjustable, elastic, flexible, malleable, pliable, pliant, supple
5. She's proud and stubborn, you know, under that pliant exterior.
6. The government wanted to make the press more pliant.
7. They weave a basket out of osiers with pliant young willows.
8. Malaysia has an unusual combination of high internet penetration and pliant mainstream media.
9. These toys are made of pliant rubber, so they won't break.
10. Candy knew just what El Lobo, with his pliant body and immobile gaze, was up to.
11. Our factory's spring chairs are Both pliant and strong, and comfortaBle to sit in.
12. When it is dragged over pliant areas, an percussive tap could indicate this collision.
13. New research shows how the pliant animals create such a stiff limb.
14. Pliant, supple and inviting, the Confidences is an excellent choice for drinking now and over the next few years
15. Adjustable, flexible, compliant, malleable, pliant, plastic, modifiable, alterable He hopes to make the workforce more Adaptable …
16. You feel the grit in the clay, the slick surface of the glass, the pliant rubber.
17. Synonyms for Complying include acquiescent, consenting, compliant, agreeable, submissive, amenable, pliant, yielding, acceding and assenting
18. She sat rigidly, shaking, incapable of anything other than being there, pliant in his hands.
19. Their skin feels like day-after-death skin, cold and hard though still faintly pliant.
20. Of Isabel lying soft and pliant in his arms, her slender body pressed to his.
21. When it is dragged over pliant areas, an additional percussive tap could indicate this collision.
22. Limbs pliant, reason suspended, she lay in a universe where nothing mattered except that he should not stop.
23. A pliant probe, extendable though the catheter, is mounted within the hollow housing for adjustable axial movement.
24. The city council, famous in the 1980s for its bitter internal disputes, could not be more pliant.
25. The management has adopted a more pliant position, and has agreed to listen to the staff's requests.
26. The joints of his limbs were so pliant and flexible that he seemed much more like one asleep than dead.
27. Buxom (comparative Buxomer or more Buxom, superlative Buxomest or most Buxom) (obsolete, archaic, rare) Pliant, obedient, tractable (to) (i.e
28. Chondrocytes are specialised cells which produce and maintain the extracellular matrix of cartilage, a tissue that is resilient and pliant.
29. Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.
30. Selection in this new niche would have been principally for tameness, but competition among cats would also have continued to influence their evolution and limit how pliant they became.
31. The bishops around the court—suave, pliant men, accessible to discreet gestures of favor and adroit bargaining—as a rule protested as little as their superior.
32. As adjectives the difference between compliant and Complaisant is that compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants while Complaisant is
33. Alternating meticulous power pop ("Measure") and anxious aloofness ("Let's Write a Book") with relaxed twang ("Clear Water") and pliant balladry ("Curves of the Needle"), the Brewises …