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elastic

Something is elastic if it can stretch or bend and go back to the way it was. She held the papers together by putting an elastic (rubber) band around them. A metal spring is elastic: it gives back the energy that was put into it when it was pushed.

elastic

capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy an elastic band a youthful and elastic walk (= flexible) able to adjust readily to different conditions an adaptable person a flexible personality an elastic clause in a contract a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

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  • What words describe something that can be stretched?

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Simple sentences

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 material isn't elastic enough.

Movie subtitles

The vagina is a surprisingly elastic organ, as midwifery will have shown you.
I'm not buying anything that can't be worn over tights and an elastic roll-on.
Red tape is strictly non-elastic.
That's a very elastic word.
Suddenly time is so elastic.
But the second you stretch it, it becomes elastic like rubber.
He got confetti on elastic.
Maybe it has elastic properties we don't even know yet.
Fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic.
Omega's will was like the tension in the elastic.
Which will be put in stacks of 200 bills each, bound with two thick elastic bands.
Bound with thick elastic bands.
Something, uh, elastic.
For a perfect slingshot strike, aim, keep the target in the middle of the fork, pull the elastic with strenght, until it comes to your ear, then let go.
You see, the trainer knows how elastic the race ground is.
I'm afraid this is impossible, dear. My arms aren't sufficiently elastic.
Elastic Defence.
Did the ribbons and elastic come?
Donnerwetter! That stuff could unravel your elastic stockings.
He got confetti on elastic. That's how tightfisted he is.
However, it's possible the rock is different in space: Out there it might do anything. Maybe it has elastic properties we don't even know yet.
With the combination of elastic-sided boots and tights.
This will make it elastic.
At Chastity Belt, there are no metals. no elastic supports. no tranquilizers.
You elastic seams.
Who's got an elastic band to tie my horse-tail?
At the moment, it's like elastic, fully stretched.
We shall imagine that the hips are an empty box Joint to the mouth by an elastic tube.
They feel like beads on a piece of elastic.
The elastic in my shorts has snapped!
If you get an elastic bandage, you can pull it tighter.
And Elastic.
Maybe she was praying because the elastic is shot in her pantyhose.
No elastic on the sides. Cut on the bias.
My finger follows the elastic where it bites the skin.
There's Elastic Man, Plastic Man. - I'm leaving.
One day, during the intermission. the elastic holding my books broke.
Red ones, with elastic bands.
There's no elastic.

News and current affairs

The system is very elastic, and has shown itself able to accommodate an increasing number of states.
Exhausted by the ongoing war, most Chechens now are ready to resolve their problems within the framework provided by Russia's elastic federal structure.
In other words, demand for imports and exports is not very price-elastic, and there is only limited scope for substituting domestically produced alternatives.
To achieve this end, whatever needs to be done will be done; principles and rules are elastic.
Although the Stability and Growth Pact may be elastic enough to permit some deficit stimulus, a country may feel constrained from acting as aggressively as it wants.
Few of us, however, respond as emotionally to the threat of chronic disease, a vague and elastic term that is mainly useful for organizing health services.
And it has done so by relying on innovative measures that substitute its elastic balance sheet for those of over-extended governments, gun-shy private investors, and fleeing bank depositors.
By the time a revised task force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed sufficiently elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet.

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