How to Use malleable in a Sentence

malleable

adjective
  • Some traits, of course, are malleable.
    Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
  • At that point, your dough should be soft, malleable and ready to be shaped.
    Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Even so, Trump is malleable and can change his tune on a dime.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Dallas has proven very malleable on the boards as a team this season.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 2 May 2022
  • Scientists have known for a long time that the brain is malleable.
    Claudia Lopez-Lloreda, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Penn wears the charm on a heavy gold chain with a malleable hook enclosure.
    Sadiya Ansari Spandita Malik, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • But at the same time, the bottom half of the braid needed to be malleable.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 7 May 2019
  • Pewter is a malleable metal made mostly of tin.
    Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • But what if what our preferences are malleable, like our brains?
    Jill Barth, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • At most, in a way only tiny, crunchy, malleable ice pebbles can do.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 May 2024
  • Fashion is made of soft goods—things in every sense, malleable.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
  • When urea was used in the mixture, the results were malleable and easy to shape.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
  • The optimal slime is not too wet, not too sticky, stretchy and malleable.
    Washington Post, 22 June 2017
  • The final dough should be smooth, and slightly sticky but still malleable.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The courts are, for now, proving less malleable to his wishes.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Older adults’ brains are also malleable, but less so.
    Paul Spann, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This bra comes with malleable foam cups that'll conform to your unique breast shape for light support.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 16 Aug. 2022
  • But while the spirit of the art might be malleable, the logistics are rigid.
    Carly Stern, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2020
  • The ropes are a malleable form, one that shifts according to our own movements.
    Allison Noelle Conner, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • But by then Democrats will have changed their malleable minds to favor keeping it.
    George Will, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Their replacement is both sleek and malleable for the seasons ahead.
    Shelby Ying Hyde, Refinery29, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This turns the entire game world into something that feels malleable.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • When there were elections at stake, though, Rubio proved more malleable.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Soft and malleable, great for cuddling, and there’s candy in the pocket!
    Claire Wyman, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The lead was heavy but surprisingly soft and malleable.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The bootlicker’s moral compass is malleable.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • After a squishy few years of malleable tax law, thanks to the pandemic, the rules are a lot tighter this year.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • In an attempt to make the toy more malleable, young people are heating it up in the microwave.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The hefty dose of baubles creates the illusion of malleable metal snaking its way up the stairs.
    Kelsey Mulvey, ELLE Decor, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This is especially true during the first few years of life, when the brain is most malleable.
    Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2018

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