Flexibility

Examples

• Perhaps the Modern Period with its flexibility, sense of change, and desire for self-direction is a liberation due to the great surplus of wealth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sisal also lacks the flexibility of Manila, being much more stiff and harsh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The wax of the ear is essential for flexibility of the ear drum; if an extra amount accumulates, it can be got rid of by bathing the ear in hot water, since the heat will melt the wax. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Greater flexibility was needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The old girl said it wouldn't do; intention good, but want of flexibility; try the bassoon. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They were generally one-wheeled machines, lacked flexibility of parts and were costly. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is built in two halves for flexibility and either half may be replaced during repairs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The flexibility and transferability of money was becoming a power and, like all powers in inexpert hands, a danger in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The ductility of glass at high temperatures seems to be unlimited, while its flexibility increases in proportion to the fineness to which its threads are drawn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It consists of two units, linked together to give flexibility to the wheel base. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the growing popularity of incandescent lighting, the flexibility and safety of the system, the ease with which other electric devices for heat, power, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This gave much greater flexibility, and the further advantage of enabling a shoemaker to half sole the shoe by the old method of hand sewing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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