How to Use ductile in a Sentence

ductile

adjective

• That section of pipe has been replaced with ductile carbon steel piping.
  — Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• This technique, known as annealing, realigned the atoms and relaxed their bonds, making the metal more ductile.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Obsolete cast iron and asbestos cement lines are now replaced with more durable ductile iron or plastic.
  — Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• Even as Mr. Shults goes light on the exposition, the characters — with their rapid gestures, cacophonous movements and ductile faces — express a great deal.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
• Buildings made of non-ductile concrete collapsed in the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
  — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
• Basically, steel is iron, with a little carbon added in to increase strength: tiny carbon atoms nestle between the larger iron ones, making the steel denser and more ductile.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2021
• On the same day that Marchitelli and Lorusso were going street-by-street with their sound equipment, a separate crew had fenced off a portion of a block in downtown Bari, laying new, blue pipes of ductile iron.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• There are also more than 1,000 non-ductile concrete buildings — the same kind experts say collapsed after the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Mushes are likely ductile but behave like a solid, as in they are mainly network of crystals with liquid in-between, somewhat like a sponge.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2014
• The utility crew — the public-works heirs of the men who installed the wooden water mains during the James Madison administration — was replacing the old cast piping with what’s known as a ductile iron main.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 May 2017
• One of her teachers there was the conceptual artist Allan Kaprow, who had a long familiarity with Asian art and viewed both art and culture as ductile categories.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• The vehicle's ductile metallic outer layer will be lined with small cavities to flow propellant through the material to keep it cool during reentry.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2022
• This fantastic primer video from Real Engineering highlights a few in particular: stiff, tough, strong, ductile, brittle, and hard.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2016
• Gold is ductile and can conduct electricity, for example.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
• For this artist, time — ductile and emotionally loaded — seems as important a medium as photography or sculpture.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
• The flaws of non-ductile concrete construction are found across California, with many buildings having not been evaluated or retrofitted and at risk of collapse in a serious earthquake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2023
• One major difference is the attitude towards such construction: Cities in California are actively working to retrofit non-ductile concrete buildings.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2023
• While Los Angeles County building standards were previously updated to ensure new construction can withstand seismic activity, non-ductile, concrete high-rises are prone to brittle behavior during an earthquake, according to the board of supervisors.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024