Example Sentences

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In practice, popes often used “just cause” elastically, blessing the expansionist campaigns of kings and emperors and sometimes even donning armor themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

At the same time, it behaves elastically, meaning it can bend and partially return to its original shape, similar to a rubber band.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Loose-limbed and preternaturally radiant, Ms. Johnson, 71, moved about elastically in her Midtown hotel suite last week.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

But a string of music biopics - many of which played so elastically with the truth that Yankovic sensed they were ripe for parody - made the premise even more appealing.

From Washington Times • Sep. 9, 2022

Before John could reply sunshine lighted the inquirer's face and she stepped forward elastically to give her hand to Mr. Dinwiddie Pettigrew.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.