elastically
- a word derived from elastic.
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
He displays a gift for slapstick — watch the way he elastically climbs onto a platform two stairs at a time — and spares no effort, whether in solo songs or leading big numbers.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Steel behaves elastically when subjected to a certain amount of tension.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2023
The more she struggled, the more energetically and elastically they pushed back at her; till all at once she was forced over the round, smooth edge, and fell.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
