rubbery

Example Sentences

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Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The third track, “Ready, Steady, Go!,” is another clubby number, this time with a clean and rubbery bassline, and it too creates an expectation for a feeling of release that never arrives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Read's agency is currently funding various pioneering approaches to robotics, some of which involve actuators made of elastomers – like rubbery plastics.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Electronic music starts to thump, rubbery pulsars bouncing over a steady beat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

His legs were rubbery and his stomach was in knots.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer