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How to pronounce pliable in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms elastic, flexible, pliant
Derivation pliability
Type Words
Synonyms ductile, malleable, pliant, tensile, tractile
Derivation pliability


they soaked the leather to made it pliable.
Type Words
Synonyms fictile
Type Words
Synonyms bendable, pliant, waxy
Derivation pliability

Examples of pliable

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Asphalt is used to make pliable mats placed inside doors to muffle street noise.
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Heat each wrap for about 10 seconds on each side, or until wrap becomes pliable.
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There he tends to vineyards where the dirt is actually pliable 12 months a year.
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Its six-speed manual gearbox is notchy and pliable, and allows rapid gearchanges.
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Continue to beat the frosting until it is smooth, thick and pliable, 3 minutes.
From the courier-journal.com
The leaves are pliable, not stiff like the ones you can get at the grocery store.
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You want a pliable dough that's thick enough to stay on the line when you cast.
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With a pliable rubber scraper or whisk, gently fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
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You must make sure the lettuce leaves are pliable enough to wrap around the fish.
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More examples
  • Fictile: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
  • Ductile: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
  • Elastic: able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
  • Bendable: capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
  • (pliability) bendability: the property of being easily bent without breaking
  • Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded
  • (Pliability) Property of a roofing material to be flexible or moldable.
  • (Pliability) Degree of softness and ease of flexing and bending of wallpaper.