Example sentences for: elastic

How can you use “elastic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My daughter tells me, however, that the terms was used at least ten years ago for the elastic cords used for tying schoolbooks to the luggage rack at the back of a bicycle.

  • The conclusion, then, is influenced strongly by whether the workshare category is more elastic.

  • 21 Similarly, higher rates would be expected for less elastic categories.

  • Catgut , for example, has nothing to do with that animal as it is a tough, elastic cord made from the twisted intestines of sheep, used for the strings of musical instruments.

  • The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.


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