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Suppleness in sentence

8 examples of Suppleness in a sentence

The ideals of participatory democracy are represented through suppleness rather than rigidity.
He had to hasten so as not to lose sight of the light; only where the child passed with ease, with the suppleness of a serpent, he could not glide through without bruising his limbs.
A slim and shapely figure betokened suppleness rather than strength.
But, when she raised an arm, when she advanced a foot, it was easy to perceive that she possessed feline suppleness, short, potent muscles, and that unmistakable energy and passion slumbered in her soporous frame.
His ladylove, with her feline suppleness, her nervous flexibility, had glided, little by little, into each fibre of his body.
Thinking thus, he slipped, with the suppleness of a serpent, to the lowest branches, the ends of which bent almost to the ground.
Vinicius, though sick and accustomed to the Greek's suppleness, could not repress a smile.
Tigellinus had sense enough to know his own deficiencies; and seeing that he could not compete with Petronius, Lucan, or others distinguished by birth, talents, or learning, he resolved to extinguish them by the suppleness of his services, and above all by such a magnificence that the imagination of Nero himself would be struck by it.