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    Use "elastic" in a sentence

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    elastic


    1. The world seemed to swing from the blackest depths to the sunniest heights, and all I seemed capable of doing was grimly hanging on to the elastic chord between these two poles


    2. Time is an elastic concept in captivity


    3. A dollar bill is fingered and fumbled into the elastic


    4. By practicing this exercise your spine will gradually become more elastic and as it effects the kidneys it is a powerful way of eliminating the toxic waste that is the primary cause of arthritis and allied complaints


    5. The Yogis maintain that you are only as old as your spine and that by keeping the spine in a flexible, elastic and healthy condition you can ward off old age for longer than you think


    6. He reached out and grabbed her knickers, ripping them off in one movement, scoring her skin in the process as the elastic resisted the force momentarily


    7. Using differential calculus, a slide-rule and a box of one hundred assorted elastic bands, he set about calculating the Pong Ratio of seven known elemental odours


    8. where ε - elastic deformation; ε - plastic deformation;


    9. Elastic properties of concrete can be characterized by static modulus of elasticity (E) and by dynamic modulus of elasticity (E ) which taking into d


    10. I was quartering my area now with my sight and my breath was coming in shallow heaves whilst my nerves were as tight as a virgin’s knicker elastic by the shot

    11. The same argument would apply for a case in which you had an elastic measuring tape and wanted to measure the distance between two objects


    12. If you measured the distance, not knowing that the measuring tape was elastic, or that a force was applied to the tape while you are measuring, you would get an incorrect answer


    13. The rain continued to fall and we were wet and miserable as well and our nerves were stretched tighter than a virgin’s knicker elastic


    14. The elastic demands imposed on our courts by modern impressions advancing the (unlimited) right to free expression have stretched its traditional boundaries in a manner that the Founding Fathers could never have possibly envisioned given the moral climate of the times in which they lived


    15. A ―probable‖ law is probable inasmuch as it remains subject to ―proof;‖ that is to say, until it is validated by common practices and/or legal interpretations by legal authorities consisting of nonelected men and women appointed to our nation‘s highest courts who remain unaccountable to the American People; subject to contingent legalities that directly affect them and whose ―definitive‖ arguments are (oftentimes) subject to change as the ideological alignment of the courts may vary thereby overriding legislative authority vested by the people to sanction laws by rendering elastic, interpretations of (uncertain) legal propositions and subsequent laws of the land, thereby setting themselves up in a uncertain manner as supreme arbiters of the law


    16. After counting out five thousand pounds, he wound an elastic band around the roll and stuffed it into his inside jacket pocket


    17. She tore the dripping mass free, in the process snapping an elastic painfully against her thumb


    18. It wasn’t as elastic as he might have thought


    19. With long, elastic branches, they had spanned a cover over the carriage like a roof that would protect him against rain and strong sun


    20. Tonight Jeannine became obsessed with the nightgown’s tight fitting elastic sash that ran under her bust line

    21. Unconscious of the attention she was getting from the band, Jeannine adjusted and readjusted her breasts above the elastic sash at least twenty times


    22. the elastic waistband of my panties, slid them over my trembling cheeks, and pulled them


    23. clamps, stretching my flesh like it was a giant elastic band


    24. Ken’s concept of time became elastic to a degree that he had not thought possible


    25. Knead 8-10 minutes or until smooth and elastic


    26. remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (5 minutes total)


    27. pants with their elastic waists allowed Lucy to prolong


    28. didn’t involve super elastic vocal cords and the ability to avoid a


    29. and elastic and can be stretched by the


    30. Nicanor, seemed to be in agreement with the deal, because the first days he was adapted fairly well to the granted territory, but when we were getting used to this forced truce, Nicanor, making use of his elastic limbs, leaped to Salome’s window and immediately sought to Bartolomeo throughout the house and found him very comfortably frolicking on the red plush which is next to the fireplace curb

    31. Peter was saved by Robert's quick thinking and elastic arms that grabbed Peter out of the shrub area and back with all the children


    32. Stripped of its robes, Ishbel’s blue-veined blubber bulged like a soft elastic bag of fat that bounced, sagged, flowed and quivered


    33. kneaded, it will be elastic and silky smooth


    34. ‘I feel as though there’s a piece of elastic round my neck with one end fixed at Michael and John’s


    35. Such a map would have to be multidimensional and elastic, and would have to accommodate not


    36. (That was the elastic material stretched to accompany his size)


    37. - Stir by hand or with a food processor for ten minutes or until dough gathers into a ball and then becomes elastic in texture


    38. The Alpha Pack smile; all gleaming red eyes and huge canines wearing metallic plates strapped around them by elastic wires


    39. While he would rub Amaranta Úrsula’s erect breasts with egg whites or smooth her elastic thighs and peach-like stomach with cocoa butter, she would play with Aureliano’s portentous creature as if it were a doll and would paint clown’s eyes on it with her lipstick and give it a Turk’s mustache with her eyebrow pencil, and would put on organza bow ties and little tinfoil hats


    40. Add 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons water and the lemon juice to form pliable dough, and mix until smooth and elastic

    41. make it still, she snapped a wide elastic band around each of its claws then


    42. that one had all its legs,' she looked at Will, waving the pack of elastic bands at


    43. The girl braced herself on the side of the boat as, like a length of retracting elastic, the rope began to shorten


    44. Next, she pulled out of a leg pocket a specially made kaki fabric cover with an elastic band around its base and fitted it over her helmet


    45. because the demand for its product is much more elastic: both businesses and consumers


    46. Five of the six men in the adjacent room were sitting around a large table, counting dollar bills piled on the table before putting elastic bands around the counted wads and then stuffing the wads in a large sports bag set on top of the table


    47. •Without a sufficient supply of polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, the body will use saturated fat to construct cell membranes, resulting in cell membranes that are less elastic, a situation that makes the heart muscle stiffer and less able to return to a resting state 18


    48. Shoop kept a few elastic band disguises on him most of the time as he


    49. The elastic bands came in very handy for him


    50. She handed it to him, and after he secured it to his left wrist with the small elastic band, he dove head first into the water












































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    Synonyms for "elastic"

    elastic elastic band rubber band flexible pliable pliant airy bouncy buoyant expansive resilient volatile stretchable plastic springy stretch

    "elastic" definitions

    a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together


    a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material


    capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy


    able to adjust readily to different conditions