loose-jointed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for loose-jointed
Adjective
  • Kylie, Eliza, and Leandra are power musicians, often providing an impenetrable strong backdrop for Jordan, whose acrobatic voice and impressive vocal control has a pop sheen to it.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In this video, kids can count along as the colorful T-Rex dinosaurs jump rope, balance on a beam, do the vault, and try out many more acrobatic skills in a gym.
    Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Two ultra-limber actors — Hassiem Muhammad and Ryan Sellers — in garish body makeup (and dance shoes) merge limbs and psyches for an electric demonstration of poetry in motion.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • For thousands of years, people have turned to yoga to feel more limber, release stress and rejuvenate their overall physical and mental health.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 21 June 2022
Adjective
  • This led Liu to wonder if these pliant electronics might keep up with the mutable nature of embryonic brains.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2025
  • These moves give China not only privileged access to economic assets but also political leverage over a pliant neighbor within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), tightening its grip on a region central to its ambitions.
    Ye Myo Hein, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Only the graceful styling and the classic neon sign gives any indication the motel was built in 1953.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Her community fastly feels the sharp absence of her graceful, essential labor and employs matriarch Ana (María Magdalena Sanizo) to coax her back home.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Across conversations over the past two years, people who have worked in the footballing department and beyond have described him as a perfect, pliable pupil.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Amid the passing guest stars, Ortega remains the show’s only sustaining highlight, giving a performance that’s as precise as her character is pliable.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Replenishing those reserves is key to maintaining glowing, supple skin—a sort of personal fountain of youth so to speak.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 11 July 2025
  • The belt is crafted from two layers of durable yet supple bison leather.
    Darryn King, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Community colleges are perfectly suited to respond quickly to workforce disruptions: local, agile and closely aligned with industry demands.
    Alex Goryachev, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Even at 80, Latin music titan Eddie Palmieri was as agile as ever on the keys.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Further discussions in London and Stockholm made enough progress for the two sides this week to announce another extension of the ceasefire, with the White House praising Beijing for being cooperative and flexible in the negotiations to date.
    Scott Kennedy, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Andy Naylor Scott Parker is aiming to be flexible and adaptable with his system this season.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Loose-jointed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loose-jointed. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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