supple

IPA: sˈʌpʌɫ

noun

  • A surname.

verb

  • (transitive, intransitive) To make or become supple.
  • (transitive) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.

adjective

  • Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
  • Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
  • (figuratively) Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
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Examples of "supple" in Sentences

  • I am quite the supple young lad.
  • It keeps the skin supple and soft.
  • Jellyfish is known for its suppleness.
  • The edible rind is supple, with a slightly bitter flavor.
  • Hardness is the core of Chuojiao which it combines with suppleness.
  • The judges commented on his elasticity, suppleness, and engagement.
  • If the craziness is a trade off for suppleness, that's fine with me.
  • The chains are supple and flexible, draping gracefully about the neck.
  • These arrangements increase the suppleness, the reliability, and the comfort.
  • Researchers developed a new cosmetic agent to make skin supple, state-run media boasted.
  • It is lighter, and fluffier than the purple (Day 3 Store Bought Lotion) bar and leaves the skin supple and soft.
  • Cory Doctorow is building a reputation as a writer who consistently delivers unpredictable stories in supple, evocative prose.
  • If you realize you added too much flour, add some more milk (1 tbsp at a time), until the dough is again supple and easy to handle.
  • These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack.
  • Like the idea of the Creator, the reasons for their prevalence across the region is rooted in supple yet enduring epistemologies deriving from early Niger-Congo history.
  • These treatments, however, are in short supple due to a significant dearth of democracy resulting from socially and politically entrenched power inequalities and hegemonic ideologies.

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