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 Meanings and Examples of PLIABLE
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pliable
 a.  flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
Classic Sentence:
1  But Scarlett intended to marry--and marry Ashley--and she was willing to appear demure, pliable and scatterbrained, if those were the qualities that attracted men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable of young women, deferential to her elders and without any opinions of her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  In remodeling the bathroom, we have replaced all the old, rigid lead pipes with new, pliable copper tubing.