resilient

How To Use resilient In A Sentence

• Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
• From 80s synth poppers to black-leathered stadium rockers, Depeche Mode are nothing if not resilient.
• Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
• Tough as steel in his adherence to principle, resilient, placable, self-less and generous beyond the dictates of fashion, steadfast in friendship, but not at the price of reason, he strides the world of mathematics a happy warrior.
• Add it up and there's a business resilient enough to handle 2.5 per cent food deflation. Times, Sunday Times
• This rubber ball is very resilient and immediately springs back into shape.
• Spillers pet foods had a resilient first half despite the continuing pressure on pet food margins.
• Supporting smaller farms also avoids mass consolidation which narrows the gene pool and renders crops less resilient against disease. Times, Sunday Times
• Happily, children are resilient and this sort of familial chaos will have no effect on them.
• Industrial and commercial uses of DEHP include resilient flooring, wall covering, roofing, aluminum foil coating/laminating, paper coating, extrudable molds and profiles, electronic component parts and wire and cable coating and jacketing. Industrial uses of di(1,2-Ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)