How to Use ductile in a Sentence
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That section of pipe has been replaced with ductile carbon steel piping.
—Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2017
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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
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Obsolete cast iron and asbestos cement lines are now replaced with more durable ductile iron or plastic.
—Washington Post, 8 May 2017
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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
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Buildings made of non-ductile concrete collapsed in the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
—Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gold is ductile and can conduct electricity, for example.
—Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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