How to Use inflexible in a Sentence

inflexible

adjective

• Heat and carbon dioxide build up in the suit, there’s a lack of fresh air in the helmet and the armor is heavy and inflexible.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
• Still, some boosters are large and inflexible, so opt for one of our picks below.
  — Stirling Kelso, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2020
• Here’s an example if one of the worst inflexible plans.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• But don’t think of that circle as something closed and inflexible.
  — Manon Defelice, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• Over time space suits change, growing rigid and inflexible.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2022
• The force of the enterprise is in deterrence—in making plain that there are inflexible standards for conduct in war.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• And where is the line between authentic and inflexible?
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2022
• The process is relatively inflexible as each new strain or virus must be developed and grown from scratch.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Certainly Charles Laughton is at his best in a relentless portrait of the inflexible Capt.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• Bob Babb didn’t get to 44 years of coaching the Johns Hopkins baseball program by being inflexible.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 5 June 2023
• While firms in tech have not been strangers to working from home, many industries that were inflexible on the issue pre-2020 had to quickly adapt to remote practices.
  — Emilia D'anzica, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Raised in Cairo, Egypt, he was born with detached lenses in his eyes, an uncommonly short stature and inflexible hands.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
• The static strategy of the 60/40 index portfolio is inflexible and out of date.
  — David Thomas, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• That has left the 85-year-old Abbas entrenched at the head of an aging and inflexible Palestinian leadership.
  — Joseph Krauss, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• Keep in mind that most innerspring mattresses are too inflexible to work well with an adjustable frame.
  — Deirdre Mundorf, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• What to Consider: The material makes the pack stiff and inflexible.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
• And over the past few years, there seemed to finally be real momentum to change the U.S.’s inflexible—or, in some places, nonexistent—workplace and leave policies.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• McCarthy had a clear vision of what needed to be done without being inflexible.
  — Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2022
• The only disadvantage to the silicone design is that the thumb can be a little inflexible.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2024
• But solid metal can fatigue and break, and the more that’s added to a soft material, the more inflexible the material becomes.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2022
• This can happen when the resolutions are too lofty, inflexible, or aren’t personal to you.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Dec. 2022
• My mother’s judgment on such matters was always inflexible, with that little twist of distaste in her face, behind the show of concession and self-doubt.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• One advantage of the mail voting process is its convenience for people whose work schedules are busy or inflexible.
  — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• Existing practices are tuned for inflexible hardware, large batch sizes and scale as the key to efficiency.
  — Darcy Burner, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Almost four out of five remote workers with inflexible schedules were looking to leave their current job.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• What is measured gets done, but the trouble is that MES’s have historically been mediocre or at least inflexible.
  — Trond Arne Undheim, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• All sides are following delicate strategies, trying to appear resolute but not inflexible, so as to avoid blame in the event of war.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• The returns to working long, inflexible hours have greatly increased.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• McMurphy rebels against the inflexible caretaker with ripple affects on all of the ward's patients.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
• These positions earn less and are often inflexible to schedule changes.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 12 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024