Example Sentences

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Rock can respond to stress in three ways: it can deform elastically, it can deform plastically, and it can break or fracture.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Man is master not only of the soil, but of the plants that grow in it, molding them plastically to suit human purposes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gold uses this motion to show that any departure of the earth from its normal axis makes the earth's material flow plastically.

From Time Magazine Archive

“That’s the conclusion of the testing,” he informed her—or rather it—and Eldon Rosen, who regarded him with writhing worry; the elderly mans face contorted, shifted plastically with angry concern.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick