Definition: 1. Extended meanings; capable of change. 2. Able to flex; able to bend easily. 3. Able to adjust readily to different conditions. 4. Bending and snapping back readily without breaking. 5. Making or willing to make concessions.
Use 'flexible' in a sentence:
1. Copper wire is flexible.
2. Our plans need to be flexible enough to cater for the needs of everyone.
3. Web sites enhance books by providing pictures, sound, film clips, and flexible indexing and search utilities.
4. Lead is strong and flexible so it's ideal for joining pieces of glasses cut in different shapes and sizes.
5. How flexible can you be on times?
6. It's strong, yet very flexible.
7. He is flexible and likable.
8. WYSIWYG editing makes your word processing smoother and more flexible.
9. The shake-up aims to recast IBM as a federation of flexible and competing subsidiaries.
10. This material is flexible.
11. The best carving utensil is a long, sharp, flexible knife.
12. Jets of compressed air lift the hovercraft off the ground, and flexible skirts around the craft retain the air cushion, and help to keep it stable.
13. Look for software that's flexible enough for a range of abilities.
14. The muscular system of the octopus enables it to be very flexible to assume all sorts of shapes and postures.
15. The Japanese are able to supply niche markets because of their flexible production methods.
16. App-backed gyms offer people flexible options to exercise.
17. We need a foreign policy that is more flexible.
18. These Regulations are quite elastic ( or flexible).
19. We are all born flexible but as we grow older, we tend to seize up a little.
20. Unlike traditional gyms, app-backed gyms offer people flexible options to exercise.
21. To know how flexible to be, you have to know the market.
22. Rewards can be flexible working hours.
23. It's learning to be flexible.
24. 'Is he the kind of man who can be as flexible as he needs to be?' — 'Well, I hope so.'
25. Working from home offers the ultimate in flexible life styles.
26. Your body grow more flexible as you move from one pose to another.
27. Are you working flexible hours?
28. This flexible framework allows any object to be translated into another type.
29. He's a very flexible person.
30. He shopped around for a firm that would be flexible.
31. We should stick to the principles and be flexible as well.
32. We will carry out a flexible foreign policy.
33. He wanted to find a job with flexible working time.
34. The Prayer Book has provided a flexible enough nexus of beliefs to hold together the different church parties.
35. They can work flexible hours.
36. Because of their size, these models are not very flexible.
37. It refers to flexible timing of traffic signals.
38. She has become a bit more flexible.
39. Because the work was voluntary it was flexible, time-wise.
40. In fact, it's keratin which makes them flexible and without it they would be very rigid.
41. A flexible retirement age is being considered by Ministers to unify men's and women's pension rights.
42. The talks can succeed if both sides are flexible and serious.
43. The changes will lead to more flexible leases, and leases nearer to 15 years than the present norm of 25 years.
44. If you happen to be very flexible, he can raise your leg high, possibly to his shoulder, creating a very open pose.
45. I like shoes with flexible rubber soles.
46. I love the pair of shoes with flexible rubber sores.
47. Automation would bring a shorter, more flexible working week.
48. You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach.
49. We can be very flexible ─ our entry requirements are not set in tablets of stone.
50. A portfolio approach would keep entry into the managerial profession open and flexible.
51. The codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.
52. There is little evidence that this encouraged flexible, interactive teaching in the classroom.
53. There is also the potential to develop telecommuting and other more flexible working practices.
54. My schedule is quite flexible. I could arrange to meet with you any day next week.
55. His company offers a flexible packaging service for the food industry.
56. Times become more flexible off-season, especially in the smaller provincial museums.
