supple

The dancers’ slouchy leg warmers and trash bag pants keep their muscles supple and ready for the energetic spirit of George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

That tower is extraordinary, with its deep-set curved windows arrayed like a supple column of vertebrae.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Their metallic frames covered in supple, lifelike skin, a posse of new Chinese robots meant for companionship can offer users AI-generated conversation or a hand to hold, complete with manicured nails.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

That was all down to Styles' supple and powerful band.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

The queen’s men had made it from the trees of the haunted forest, from saplings and supple branches, pine boughs sticky with sap, and the bone-white fingers of the weirwoods.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The aviation giant said their suppler informed them the installation of fittings on the rear of the plane did not follow the standard.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023

With so much cash waiting to be spent, let’s make sure those resources result in more trained workers, more efficient institutions and able bureaucracies, sharper strategies, increased innovation and suppler supply chains.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever, and his ability to conjure a historical milieu he never actually experienced does not falter.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2020

Further "sharp practices" included retrospective discounts, where firms seek to apply discounts to outstanding money owed to a suppler, late payment and discounts for paying on time, FSB said.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2014

In all the school, even among the older boys, there was none suppler, none so perfectly developed.

From Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill

“Energy” seems to operate on wires; it’s taut minimalism, with the supplest layering of sub-bass tones.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

I stand in awe of Rylance's genius, but the play, written by his wife, Claire van Kampen, struck me as a candle-lighted diversion for the world's supplest barnstormer.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

Jessica Lange, one of the supplest film actresses of her generation, is the heavy favorite to win her first Tony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

It’s a counterintuitive fact that a player with the supplest shot in the NBA, whose overarching quality is feel, has the hands and work habits of a woodchopper.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2016

Rajesh had once been the most promising of the brothers—the nimblest, the supplest, the most charismatic, the most energetic, the most beloved and idolized by my father and his family.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

They make razors and hair products and have donated a ton of supples to Astor Place Hair, so we’re discussing ways to partner on video profiles.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

"He supples all and discommends none, except where his commendations might crosse the company, and then he holds his peace,"—after the words "what is civil."

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

I propose to rub old man Jacob into Billy by way of liniment until he supples, yes, and works.

From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock

In such boyish dreaming the soul learns to do and dare, hardens and supples itself, and puts on youthful beauty; for here is its palaestra.

From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry

The great use of longeing is, not that it supples your horse—it is a farce to suppose that—but that, next to leading, it is the easiest act of obedience which you can exact from him.

From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by George Greenwood

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

The little man suppled the great ash-plant in his hands and raised it.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

If she is naturally lithe and has been well suppled on foot, the task will be considerably easier.

From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Vielle Moustache

Dalén invented a neat little device that would, when heated by the sun, pinch off the gas suppling a lighthouse’s beacon.

From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2016

There are vehicles of every size and description booming down the roadway, in and out of the city, like giant human arteries suppling NYC with energy and nutrients.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2016

He should then instruct the lady to place her hands behind her waist, the right hand grasping the left elbow, as described in the suppling practices.

From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Vielle Moustache

Some song that shall be suppling oil To weary muscles strained with toil, Shall hearten for the daily moil, Or widely read Make sweet for him that tills the soil His daily bread.

From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

There you will find in use the highest development of massage, the suppling of the spine, the cracking of the joints.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne