How to Use tensile in a Sentence

tensile

adjective

• A person would need to leap a ten-foot tensile fence to get anywhere near the sign.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• A disease that seems to have no end will test the tensile strength of love in any family.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
• What results is a tough, flat battery cell that conducts well and holds up to tensile tests in all directions.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2021
• The pilots of the seaplane, though beautifully uniformed, are unshod: Their bare feet on the pedals are as tensile as hands.
  — Rachel Cusk, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Feb. 2017
• There will be a 65-foot waterfall people can walk behind and a 2-acre tensile metal aviary net overhead.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2017
• Tis the season for racing a thunderstorm home from the grocery store, squishing around in wet sandals and testing the tensile strength of your favorite umbrella.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 25 July 2017
• Hayashi, who studies the tensile properties of spider silks, now leaves her apartment only to feed her animals.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• Whataburger is testing the tensile strength of the fine line between burger genius and breakfast insanity with its latest menu item.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
• Like all the places in the body where ligaments and muscles attach to bones, overuse and tensile stress can trigger further bone growth, forming enthesophytes.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 21 June 2019
• High-speed bearings rolled into the picture, as did carbon fibers with a tensile strength higher than the best steel, but with a much lower density – fibers 4 times stronger than steel that could store 16 times more energy per pound.
  — Charles Platt, WIRED, 1 May 2000
• Helix — fine, twisted strands of high-tensile wire — makes concrete less vulnerable to wind and explosions.
  — Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 31 July 2017
• Its newest project, a self-assembling table, is built of simply wood and tensile fabric, which folds into place to create a table with no more power than a little nudge from a human.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2015
• Tasting the best Austrian rieslings, which can combine a delicious richness with a coiled, tensile strength, would have required spending far more per bottle.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 5 May 2016
• Though easily pulled apart if handled individually, those strands took on tensile strength when the artist, using the French braid technique for hair, fused them together to form a coil measuring 50 feet in length.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2017
• This material has high tensile-impact and flexural strength.
  — Craig Caudill, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2019
• His novels are constructed, with intricate beauty, from images and scenes that don’t so much flow together as cling together in vibrating, tensile fashion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• Its underside, however, will experience severe tensile stress as the beam deforms.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
• As more nanotubes got incorporated into the bundle, the tensile stress at failure dropped, bottoming out at somewhere around 50 GigaPascals, or less than half the strength of an individual nanotube.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 May 2018
• Through such inversion, it was theorized by intellectuals such as Mikhail Bakhtin, the tensile strength of prevailing social and political conventions could be tested and, where needed, improvements made.
  — Michael Workman, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
• Snelson, whose sculptures used the same design principles but were fabricated from stainless steel poles and tensile stainless steel wires, had studied with the American architect, futurist and inventor Buckminster Fuller.
  — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024