How to Use ductile in a Sentence

ductile

adjective
  • The two 6- and 8-inch pipes will be replaced with one new 12-inch ductile iron pipe.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 9 Sep. 2023
  • That section of pipe has been replaced with ductile carbon steel piping.
    — Christopher Dinsmore, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Obsolete cast iron and asbestos cement lines are now replaced with more durable ductile iron or plastic.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2017
  • As a result, the asthenosphere is considered more ductile — or malleable and able to stretch.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • This technique, known as annealing, realigned the atoms and relaxed their bonds, making the metal more ductile.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Buildings made of non-ductile concrete collapsed in the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The all-aluminum M1s are apparently hard enough to handle ice but ductile enough to not easily chip or shatter when hitting rocks.
    — Cameron Martindell, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024
  • For this artist, time — ductile and emotionally loaded — seems as important a medium as photography or sculpture.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At the atomic level, there are principally four phases of auto steel, including the hardest yet most brittle, called martensite, and the more ductile austenite.
    — John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The vehicle's ductile metallic outer layer will be lined with small cavities to flow propellant through the material to keep it cool during reentry.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Plate tectonics is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of fragments of the earth's rigid outermost shell on an inner ductile layer.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • These high-resolution images are a first step toward tailoring magnesium alloys to be both more ductile and more stable, bringing them closer to large-scale use in cars and other vehicles.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • One of her teachers there was the conceptual artist Allan Kaprow, who had a long familiarity with Asian art and viewed both art and culture as ductile categories.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
  • In 2023, citing problems with longevity and leaks, Prescott’s mayor announced a switch from PVC plastic to ductile iron.
    — Laodong Guo, The Conversation, 25 June 2024
  • There are also more than 1,000 non-ductile concrete buildings — the same kind experts say collapsed after the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The flaws of non-ductile concrete construction are found across California, with many buildings having not been evaluated or retrofitted and at risk of collapse in a serious earthquake.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2023
  • On the same day that Marchitelli and Lorusso were going street-by-street with their sound equipment, a separate crew had fenced off a portion of a block in downtown Bari, laying new, blue pipes of ductile iron.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • The utility crew — the public-works heirs of the men who installed the wooden water mains during the James Madison administration — was replacing the old cast piping with what’s known as a ductile iron main.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 May 2017

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