Example Sentences

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And as far as the unelastic Raymond can stretch, he does, as he moves from lifelong institutionalization to a week of freedom on the road.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

That’s the paradox and the predicament of Star Wars: those who live inside the fantasy, whether they’re actors or fans, prefer their shared hallucination to the unelastic, downtrodden world of fact.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2015

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

A colt thus shod could not have a corn, for a corn is an ulcer caused by the wings of the coffin-bone pressing upon a hard, unelastic substance.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by Russell, John E.

Thus, if here and there we can detect novelties which make for improvements upon the aisleless plan, the plan itself is subject to no general development upon its own unelastic lines.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)