pliantly
- a word derived from pliant.
Example Sentences
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The ground ball that bounces on the first-base bag hops pliantly into your fielder’s glove instead of caroming wildly.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2019
Another photograph from that time shows Noriega pliantly holding up his identification card as his mug shot is taken.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2017
Once revenge is taken care of, however, he melts pliantly into Janet's arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
In truth, these pens wrote exquisitely well; and the mysterious ink flowed pliantly and black as jet, on the bright white parchment.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
His little eyes were like steel, humorously glinting gimlets in the process of boring, the old face wrinkling up around them as pliantly as a dough eraser.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
