supple
adjective
bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible.
suppled
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past participleof supple.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof supple.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
suppleadjectivebending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible.
Example Sentences
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The human neurons continued to mature as the mouse brain suppled them with blood vessels.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Responders weighed the risks versus benefits and decided to give the VSV-ZEBOV vaccine, which is suppled by Merck and stockpiled by the WHO, to children as young as 1 year old.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 13, 2018
Middlesbrough players congratulate Stuani who suppled the cross and turned in for an own goal by Bellusci.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2015
He was exquisitely shaped, and as he danced he suppled more and more, while the whistler warbled a wilder and swifter strain, and kept time with his hands.
From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
It had been suppled and pointed: it remained for it to be weighted, strengthened, and enriched.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
