unpliable

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How to use unpliable in a sentence

  • Water-glass soaps do not dissolve readily in water, they make but little suds, and render the skin hard and unpliable.

  • There was something fixed in it, and Archie's nebulous easy-going temperament had an invincible repugnance to anything unpliable.

  • All her life, as it seemed, she had been accustomed to mediate between these two unpliable and stubborn temperaments.

    The Market-Place | Harold Frederic
  • Her very lips were stiff and unpliable with the force of the blood which rushed to her head.

    Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • In vain, anxious to be let off, was I restrained in utterance—cold, unpliable.

    Confession | W. Gilmore Simms

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