supple

Dance movies marvelously translate primal emotions into motion, the human body becoming a supple instrument deftly communicating the pain, ecstasy and confusion of being alive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

Under her spell, steel is transformed into supple leather, sagging vinyl, crinkled plastic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Deftly she circled his waist, and then her own, with the length of supple vine.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

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

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

At the beginning, his caricatures verged on the radical — a block of wood for a head — but soon they eased into the suppler, more fluid and confident style of his mature work.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2015

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

With even stronger convictions is it affirmed that President-General Taylor was poisoned, that a less stern successor might give a suppler instrument to manage.

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams

“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

Cook crossed paths with the great golden-age composers and lyricists, and she deepened our appreciation for the way songwriting, in the supplest of hands, can be a heightened form of being alive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2017

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

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

"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 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

Their steps and motions were all distinct, clear, and neat; proceeding from a strength so suppled, as to give their joints all the requisite flexibility and obedience to command.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

But I have no time to be shampooed, or to be cracked or suppled.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne

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

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

The result of the suppling of the neck is a soft mouth under all conditions.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge

As the following part of the sentence speaks of "suppling and suaging wounds," I am inclined to suspect that "paster" might be an old way of spelling, "plaster."

From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various