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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of supple.

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Examples

  • Nissan has idled four of its five Japanese assembly plants this week because it is running short of a key engine control unit suppled by a division of

    Gadget Appetite Strains Suppliers 2010

  • During the subsequent war between Israel and the Arab nations Britain suppled Israel's enemies with large quantities of weapons and not a few military leaders.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • His mind had been suppled by years of precarious survival; now it took one of those leaps which had saved him in places tighter than this.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • And they have suppled us with all those products of which the imperialist government of the United States prohibited the export to our country.

    SUGAR WORKERS FESTIVAL 1961

  • To form the canoe, they are stitched together with fibrous roots of the white spruce about the size of a quill, which are deprived of the bark, split and suppled in water.

    Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

  • She wore most frequently, at this epoch, black velvet that suppled about her well-asserted contours; and the very trail of her skirt was unlike another woman's, for it coiled and bristled after her with a life and motion of its own, like a serpent.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

  • To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.

    Billy Budd 1924

  • From morning until night, day after day, year after year, the muscles of her shoulders, her back, her hips, her legs, her abdomen are suppled and developed until they will respond to her wishes as readily as her slender, henna-stained fingers.

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • "I give way," was the characteristic of his attitude to Crashaw, and the rector suppled his back again, remembered the Derby office-boy's tendency to brag, and made the amende honorable.

    The Wonder 1910

  • It wasn't flattery; her good faith was manifest in her face and voice; and Selby suppled under it like a stroked cat.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

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