[ UK /sˈʌpə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈsəpəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. make pliant and flexible
    These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
    a supple mind
    a limber imagination
  2. (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
  3. gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
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How To Use supple In A Sentence

  • These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
  • To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
  • Magnesium chelates, another supplement option, are easily absorbed.
  • I used to massage the skin, too, to make it supple and alive. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
  • The supplementary motor area has shown increased activity during learning of new movements.
  • If you are anemic your health care provider may prescribe an iron supplement.
  • Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
  • Cells were grown at 27° or 18°, as indicated, in grass infusion, bacterized with Klebsiella pneumoniae the day before use, and supplemented with 0.4 g/ml ß-sitosterol.
  • Normal supplements apply for upgrades and single occupancy. Times, Sunday Times
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