TENSILE in a Sentence

Learn TENSILE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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1. Mountain climbers must know the tensile strength of their ropes.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TENSILE
tensile
 a.  capable of being stretched or extended; ductile
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1  Mountain climbers must know the tensile strength of their ropes.