PLIANT in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of PLIANT
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pliant
 a.  flexible; easily influenced; easily bent or flexed; pliable
Classic Sentence:
1  Someone that I know, Trot,' my aunt pursued, after a pause, 'though of a very pliant disposition, has an earnestness of affection in him that reminds me of poor Baby.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
2  Suddenly darting on each other, they closed, and came to the earth, twisted together like twining serpents, in pliant and subtle folds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
3  Hidden in a shady tree is a bough with leafage and pliant shoot all of gold, consecrate to nether Juno, wrapped in the depth of woodland and shut in by dim dusky vales.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  But as in carrying them into effect they become revealed and known, they are at once obstructed by those men whom he has around him, and he, being pliant, is diverted from them.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII — HOW FLATTERERS SHOULD BE AVOIDED
Example Sentence:
1  He says that media in China is largely pliant, meaning his company has rarely faced tough questions.
2  She lay pliant in his arms.