malleable - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Sooth, generally for women, A man might strive to make glass malleable, Ere he should make them fixed.

Modifies a noun

  • iron: The bloom was a spongy mass of malleable iron whose cracks were filled with slag.
  • metal: Uranium A white malleable metal which is softer than steel.
  • material: Paper can be reduced to a fine liquid medium or a solid malleable material with sculptural possibilities.
  • block: This wire is reeved through a malleable cast-iron block situated at the head of the mast about 12 feet from the truck.
  • nature: Given the malleable nature of Time, I'd even reccommend this to someone who'd never heard of the Hitchhikers Guide before.
  • quality: Bridget formed many of the smaller sculptures in her hand due to the fluid, tactile and malleable qualities of the material.

Modifying Another Word

  • infinitely: First of all, because they were a great toy, an infinitely malleable artistic medium of creation.
  • very: Unlike ionic solids, metals are very malleable, they can be readily bent, pressed or hammered into shape.
  • so: But as software is so malleable, we are usually faced with problems that very little of the basis is known.
  • highly: Similarly, alternative media is a highly malleable label.
  • logically: My position, on the contrary, is that computers are logically malleable.
  • easily: I am not someone whose convictions are easily malleable.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Dwelling in a womb of blood and brimstone, my days became malleable, my nights infinite.
  • prove: The French however are likely to prove less malleable than we were.

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