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How To Use ductile In A Sentence

• Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
• Nickel is a silvery white metal and is both ductile and malleable.
• Whereas the alloy with low Na content exhibited ductile fracture with dimples.
• And, oh, maiden! "added the queen, with benevolent warmth," steel not thy heart against her -- listen with ductile senses to her gentle ministry; and may God and His Son prosper that pious lady's counsel, so that it may win a new strayling to the Immortal Fold! Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
• A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet whereas a ductile metal can be drawn out into a wire.
• First, it is ductile, meaning it is extremely hard to break and naturally returns to its original shape. The War on Earth
• The nonmetals are neither malleable nor ductile; if drawn out or hammered, they shatter.
• Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation. My Studio Neighbors
• It is the most ductile and malleable of all metals.
• Palladium is a relatively soft, silver-white metal that is both malleable and ductile.