How to Use mutable in a Sentence

mutable

adjective
  • The clouds stretch and loop, the most mutable thing out there.
    — Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • How mutable and how solid does the world have to be to sustain you and me?
    — Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Bryan, along with the artists who have emerged in his wake, are proof that this is still the case, that country is still mutable, still in flux.
    — Will Stephenson, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • After all, in these mutable times, a laojia exists not so much on a map but in the heart.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • As a bonus, the platinum dye job proved mutable enough for the costume changes that Sin City demands.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This is the last straw for her father, who wants to shut down Cesar’s nonsense dreams of a city made of mutable shiny stuff.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Gemini, our mutable air sign, knows a thing or two about the power of ideas.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The desert setting is as prickly and vast and mutable as Watkins’s writing; the book is a stern kick to the groin of heroic tales about the majesty of the American West.
    — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Also dark are the shadows cast by the interlaced ropes, which sketch complex, mutable webs on the gallery's white walls.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • Our mutable Earth sign, Virgo knows that a system is only as good as the people who use it.
    — Gala Mukomolova, refinery29.com, 12 June 2021
  • Pisces Traits Lastly, Pisces are the mutable water sign.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 21 Mar. 2023
  • It's got one-touch controls, a mutable buzzer, fingerprint-proof panel and a pull-open door.
    — Nicole Briese, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2020
  • As a mutable fire sign, these folks born from November 22 through December 21 are quick to move and hard to contain.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Dr Rice identified part of the viral genome that looked crucial to the process of infection, but was highly mutable.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In less lofty terms, the gala is also a place to flaunt social capital, claim a place in a mutable hierarchy and, yes, fan out one’s plumage.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The self, so various and truthfully mutable in Kraus’s book, isn’t that way onscreen.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • According to the DC Database wiki, the man is 166 pounds and five-feet-eight-inches tall, but everything else about him has been mutable for decades.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And sure, this mutable sign gets a bad rep for being two-faced, but that’s not an accurate reflection of those born under this sign.
    — Aryelle Siclait, Women's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • One of the main contributors is genetics — a factor that's about as mutable as our shoe size.
    — Natasha Bowman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The world looks awfully mutable, especially from the vantage of the aimless and rich.
    — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The ethereal paintings are more like a Genie emerging from a lamp, mutable and freighted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2021
  • In other words, your substance is dependent on your surroundings and on your place in a time line, and is therefore mutable.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
  • Beauty trends may be mutable, but certain styles will always be iconic—give or take a few inches.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2023
  • All the laws of physics are mutable and that mutability itself is a principle of physics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2015
  • Like Pisces’ elusive and mutable essence, the labradorite stone’s hues consistently adapt to the light, often changing color.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
  • You were born with your rising sign in Gemini, a mutable air sign that craves the freedom to explore and the curiosity to keep their options open.
    — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 12 July 2024
  • The mutable nature of border landscapes can pose political problems—like trying to keep track of where the line even is.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But apart from this mutable version of time, Einstein also calculated the speed of light.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2018
  • Many Geminis can attest to these concerns because the mutable sign takes on the energy of everyone around them.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Matthew is a classic hanger-on, whose own identity is mutable, molding himself to whoever is around him and shining their light on him.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025

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