How to Use inflexible in a Sentence

inflexible

adjective

• In a pot made out of inflexible material, tap the bottom firmly on a hard surface a few times to help loosen it.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
• Don’t sabotage your own odds of success by being inflexible, unreasonable or moving too slowly.
  — George Deeb, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• In fact the limit has not been as inflexible as all that.
  — The Economist, 23 May 2020
• My dad was not the inflexible tyrant that Javed’s is in Blinded.
  — Keith Campbell, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The needles should feel soft and springy, not brittle and inflexible, says O’Connor.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 Oct. 2019
• At the same time, many jobs require longer, inflexible hours.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Still, some boosters are large and inflexible, so opt for one of our picks below.
  — Stirling Kelso, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Nov. 2020
• We're too polarized now, with extreme and inflexible views on both sides of the aisle.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But in that moment, their thinking is very inflexible and rigid.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• But aspects of the rules were inflexible, and automakers had grown to resent them.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
• An inflexible career structure means that the department forces some of its best and brightest out and then doesn’t let them back in.
  — The Economist, 11 Aug. 2020
• Without the extra spot, the Orioles bullpen could be very inflexible.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Over time space suits change, growing rigid and inflexible.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2022
• Nobody had any beans to spill, but Verdugo said there is one rite of passage at Homeboy in which Boyle is inflexible.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• Opponents of per capita caps fear that the caps are too inflexible.
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 25 May 2017
• First, please obey the inflexible rule, ironclad from the Iron Age to the era of deplorable designer dogs: Do not give anyone but your own kids a pet as a surprise.
  — Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• If her business rules are exacting, then her beauty rules are more inflexible than the laws of physics.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
• Combine that with a group of core players who built up enough service time to void any option to the minor leagues and the Orioles are very much an inflexible group.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• That’s not to say that Larry is an inflexible stickler.
  — Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• 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
• This worker is at risk of being seen as an inflexible old fogey that everyone has to work around.
  — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 8 Jan. 2018
• 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
• The reason behind this is that a lot of the UI controls on Windows are either very limited, or very inflexible, or both.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 28 May 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024