flexile
Example Sentences
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As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
The long pale-green chains at the ends of all the branches hang limp and flexile, shaken with every breath of wind, or, falling over other branches, drape and festoon the whole shrub exquisitely.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
The wind is snapping in the bamboos, knocking together the resonant canes and weaving the myriad flexile wreaths above them.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Snowy linen, touches of soft color, graceful lines of bust and side, the slender fingers that could almost speak, so beautifully flexile were they.
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
