Elastic

//əˈlæstɪk//

"Elastic" in a Sentence (18 examples)

A rubber ball bounces because it is elastic.

This swimming suit is made of elastic material.

Knead the dough with both hands until it becomes elastic.

This elastic has a lot of give.

I formed balls from the elastic dough and the apple and added them to the pot of boiling oil.

This material isn't elastic enough.

The meniscus is not a bone. It is a cartilage, a flexible, elastic tissue.

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

As year succeeded to year she grew taller and stronger, her cheek more ruddy and her step more elastic.

A corset, if one is worn, should not extend below the waist-line, and should have elastic side-lacing.

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The rope is somewhat elastic, so expect it to give when you pull on it.

In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.

elastic band

Demand for entertainment is more elastic than demand for energy.

He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.

It was now about six o'clock, and that first freshness was on the air, which is to the day what youth is to life,—so light, so elastic, so sweet, and so brief:...

elastic spirits; an elastic constitution

running shorts use elastic to eliminate the need for a belt

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